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Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick.
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When's the last time you updated your analytics dashboard? If you can't remember, it might be time to refresh.
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Researchers believe storytelling developed and became part of our culture before language was fully established.
Storytelling continues to be deeply woven into the fabric of our being today. It’s how we communicate information to our co-workers, friends and family. It drives the film, television and publishing industries.
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If anyone thought business intelligence and visualization provider Qlik would fade into the background after private equity provider Thoma Bravo acquired it for $3 billion last August, this morning should have quelled their fears.
"We are going to show you more than we have ever shown you.
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When Google recently announced changes to its venerable Google Analytics homepage, user reactions to the reboot reminded me of fans’ reactions when superheroes transition from the pages of comic books to the world of big-budget Hollywood movies.
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Business leaders are experiencing fatigue following the onslaught of big data and analytics hype over the past few years. They’ve listened to the “experts” and spent millions on infrastructure, cloud computing and business intelligence tools, expecting to gain transformative insights.
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Often, when we read about mobile engagement and analytics, the conversation focuses on collecting and analyzing customer data to better understand needs and deliver memorable customer experiences.
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AUSTIN — Thirty years ago, a nation collectively rallied around the most basic of human truths: Play fair. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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AUSTIN — Texas may be known for its skilled horse and cattle handlers, but it is data wrangling that visitors to the state capital are talking about this week. More than 13,000 data enthusiasts from all over the world have descended here for Tableau's annual user conference.
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Tableau stock is soaring today, thanks to the Seattle-based company's decision to hire Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive Adam Selipsky as its new CEO.
Selipsky's appointment was announced yesterday. He replaces Tableau Software co-founder Christian Chabot, who will remain company chairman.
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How did analytics enable the ancient Egyptian high priests to achieve tremendous power?
Egyptian priests’ ability to calculate allowed them to “predict” the Nile’s annual flooding, explained Austrian mathematician Rudolf Taschner in his book Die Zahl die aus der Kälte kam (The Number That Came in From the Cold)
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We’ve all heard the promises around the democratization of data — that everyone will be able to take the digits trapped in the columns and rows inside of spreadsheets and turn them into pictures from which insights can be easily gleaned.
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Analytic tools are evolving. They're expanding from specific applications that measure such things as website traffic and content consumption to data aggregators for visualization and advanced analysis.
There are multiple new tools that build on this trend, including Watson Analytics, IBM’s cloud-based analytics service,
Watson Analytics is a natural
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Last week we explored tools for creating infographics. This week, it’s time to create data visualizations. When it comes to creating visual representation of hard data, things can get interesting.
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