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...
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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 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...
New Course: Star Schema Foundations
In this course, I cover the basics of taking your data from a transactional database and modeling it into a star schema. If you've ever wondered what the tricks...
Is the Star Schema dead?
Data Warehousing History Thirty or so years ago, well before the internet, people figured out that you could no longer rely on a single system itself to provide...