Goals are Bullshit
Your whole life you've been told to set goals and try to achieve them. The old tropes come to mind Reach for the stars and land on the moon or one I believed in...
Author: bsullins
Life-long data geek, full-time author, and wannabe surfer dude
Is Microsoft BI Any Good?
I guess you’ve heard the news already. That Microsoft happened to top the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI in 2019. Not surprising at all, I must say. If you’ve be...
Tableau Certification Worth It?
By now, you’re probably aware that Tableau is revolutionizing the data visualization space. We’ve explored its functionalities a couple of times already, and we...
9 Ways to Learn Data Science from Scratch
“Statistics is now the sexiest job around,” said Dr. Hans Rosling, a renowned professor, through a BBC documentary that featured him back in 2011. Then shortly ...
Why You Should Fear Facebook’s Data Warehouse
“They “trust me”…dumb f**ks.” Excuse me for the expletive. And sorry to break it to you, but that’s pretty much how Mark Zuckerberg described his 4,000 users ba...
Top 5 Data Skills You Need to Learn in 2019
Think about it. We have 26 letters in the alphabet and 10 basic numerical digits. Yet, somehow it all combines to generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of da...
Framing Your Data Correctly
When presenting information how you frame it matters. To illustrate this point we're going to compare how FiveThirtyEight, one of the best data news sources, ch...
How to Find and Remove Duplicates in Excel
In working with data from any source, you need to make sure you don't have duplicate values. In many systems, this can be particularly cumbersome. In my favorit...
How Data Conquered Tech
Background As the saying goes, “if sales are the air a company breathes, then data is the blood running through its veins.” At least that’s how I remembe...
What Data Pros Can Learn from Mr. Rogers
It was 1969. The US was in the middle of the Vietnam war. Money was tight and the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications was holding hearings to de...