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...
Tag: Business Intelligence
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...
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...
Microsoft’s Data Center Gamble, How You Will Die and Top Data Stories 2016 – Data Geek TV #1
2016 had lots of surprises for the world. Far too many great celebrities passed away and three major elections were stunning upsets. With all that going on, the...
Enterprise Business Intelligence with Tableau Server
By keeping all of their products beautifully simple and yet incredibly robust Tableau is quickly becoming the Business Intelligence platform of choice for anyon...
New Course: Big Data Analytics with Tableau
Teaching and sharing my knowledge and experience has always been a passion of mine. Back to the days when I was coaching lunchtime workouts in San Diego to pres...
Delivering WOW through Data
Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos.com, wrote in his book Delivering Happiness that their first objective is to Deliver WOW through Service. In the book he described a p...
My Job
This is from a recent assignment I submitted. I thought it was relevant and decided to share. Enjoy! ~~ Business Intelligence Developer Position My position is ...
Short response to Sanju Bansal about BI and Performance
BI interfaces trying to make queries faster is a valiant effort
Centralized Business Intelligence
My approach as a BI professional has always been to organize the data into conformed structures, present that to end users for consumption in their ad-hoc analy...