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Tableau vs Power BI – Which is the best tool for you?

Tableau vs Power BI The two top business intelligence and data visualization tools are Power BI and Tableau. The products are similar and the decision between the two is dependent on the specific needs of the company including budget, organization, and intended use. Tableau for Data Science A-Z for $10 Bundle. Become a Tableau Expert. […]

How to Use Altyrex with Tableau

Integrate Altyrex  Workflows to Transform Tableau Data Tableau is not a ETL tool, it’s primarily a data visualization tool. So there is often a need to use a tool like Altyrex to help create data workflows and dataset that can be consumed by Tableau:  Generate tde format file for Tableau In Tableau, there is notably better […]

Transform Power BI into Power Point

How to Make Power Point Presentation from Power BI Reports Power BI has a great function that allows you to export your visuals directly to a Power Point presentation. However, to be able to achieve this, you need to have a Power BI online account so that you can publish your Power BI workbook to […]

DEA Slang Word Visualization

Choose the substances and see the slang words   How does it work Use the interactive DEA Drug Slang Word Cloud to discover what the most common drug slang words for commonly illegal drugs. This data was source from the DEA data set on Kaggle.com. The data was in JSON file and was then exported […]

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) Calculator

Use the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) Calculator to calculate the max distance of missiles, types, and impact duration from country of origin. Nowadays, one of the biggest international threats is a nuclear weapons attack by North Korea. Their delivery method would be an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. North Korea has been increasing their capabilities in […]

How to Connect Power BI and Google Analytics.

There are a ton of over-complicated tutorials on making this data connection. However, it is easy to quickly visualize your analytics data in your Power Bi.  Also there are templates that you can use that visualize your data in a dashboard format. For this you need to get an online account Power BI. Making the […]

Why You Shouldn’t Pay For Google Analytics Training

Google Analytics is a superb piece of software that allows you to track the acquisition, behavior and outcomes on your website. However, like any tool, its function is going to be different depending on the users intent. Although I do not have hard statistics, I am sure the vast majority of Google Analytics users are […]

Tableau Desktop vs Tableau Public vs Tableau Reader vs Tableau Server

So What’s the Difference? Many people are often confused by the different software options that Tableau offers. Essentially there are three tiers in the software options. Each having an increasing layer of of features which are also related to price. Additionally, your intention will also govern what software version you should incorporate into your analysis […]

Simpsons: Quality and Viewership Decline Trend

Like a very large segment of the world in the late 80s and early 90s. I was completely obsessed with the Simpsons. Every week, I would wait eagerly for each episodes to be release on FOX. I even bought the video games and other merchandise.  But over time, the episodes became repetitive and less edgy. […]

Starbucks Data Story – Stores, Food and Drinks Stats

Starbucks is a dominate coffee chain that has multiple stores on every continent on the planet. I created a simple data story made up of three dashboards that highlight data on international store locations, food stats and drink stats. The data was sourced from multiple sources in the form of CSV files. Each dashboard was […]