Why should people care about visualizing data? Visualizing data can lead to quicker and easier decision making because it allows the user to spot trends, outliers, and ...

BI and Data Visualization

How to Build Visualizations in Tableau Optimally

By Kate Strachnyi on November 16, 2018

With data flowing in from all directions, how are businesses to make sense of all of this information, let alone make meaningful decisions? This is where a having the ...

BI and Data Visualization

How To Pick The Right BI Tool For Your Business

By Jason Harris on September 19, 2018

Humans are visually motivated. When we see a movie, we’re drawn to the most beautiful and exotic settings, the most striking and recognizable actors, the biggest ...

Data Warehousing

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Meet: Magic Ensues

By An Bui on April 19, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) has, by tradition, been a long and drawn out process. In the early days of computers, BI tools such as SAP/Crystal Reports and IBM/Cognos came ...

BI and Data Visualization

Embedded Analytics with Power BI and Azure

By Cheryl Adams on October 25, 2017

Preparing data for Business Intelligence (BI) can be a very tedious and time consuming process. You want the data to turn into the best reports for analysis. But, the ...

BI and Data Visualization

How to Prepare Data for Business Intelligence and Analytics

By Alon Brody on October 24, 2017

Is it easy to connect to a data warehouse? Selecting the right tool can help make this connection attainable. Tableau Desktop makes this connection easy, from opening ...

Data Warehousing

Connecting to Data Warehouses in Tableau

By Cheryl Adams on October 6, 2017

Are you considering a career as a BI Architect? You have made an excellent choice. Business Intelligence Architects are some of the leading minds in business and ...

Analytics Leadership

Business Intelligence Architect: Defining the Role

By Cheryl Adams on September 12, 2017

Data analyst? You must be familiar with both Tableau and AWS Redshift. And you must know, or at least you should believe me that integrating the Redshift columnar-based ...

Data Warehousing

Tableau & Redshift: How to Visualize Amazon Redshift Data

By Alon Brody on February 8, 2017

This is the third and final part in the 101 series covering big data concepts, terminology and technology

BI and Data Visualization

Never judge a book by its cover: data infrastructure and data visualization, mutually exclusive or not?

By Moran Gilad Halevi on May 23, 2016