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How to Learn Tableau Fast

5 Steps to Learn Tableau Fast Without a doubt, Tableau is the current reigning king of business intelligence software and data visualization. It’s become an essential tool for anyone who is dealing a significant amount of data. Outside of the beautiful visualization, practitioners are able to produce, it’s excellent at data mining, cleaning, stats and […]

UFO Sightings From 1910 to 2014 in United States

UFOs can be identified as any object that escapes classification  and seen trans-versing through the sky in a flying motion. National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) has been keeping records of these sightings since 1910. Evaluate the Data Visualization to see how sightings have evolved over time.   How this viz was made: Map Visualization 1. […]

Use Google Chrome Developer Tools for Conversion Rate Optimization

How to use Google Developer Tools for conversion rate optimization. Google Developers Tool is a great application that allows you analyze the code structure of your website. However, there are a of underutilized functions that are great for conversion rate optimization. Here a my favorite ways maximize the benefit of this tool. Testing Web Performance. […]

How to Build Google Analytics User Personas & Profiles

Building a Google Analytics Personas or  Customer Profile is an essential practice that all marketers should use. This profile can be quickly created using Google Analytics and Excel. However, it must be said that there are issues with data collected from Google Analytics such as this data is just a sample. However, the sample size […]

Install Hotjar with Google Tag Manager

Installing Hotjar has just gotten better and easier with a native template. Previously, you had to install this script with a custom HTML tag in Google Tag Manager. The this can done in 4 easy steps  in three phases. Take a look at the diagram below in order to see how to set this up.   […]

Chicago Crimes 2015 vs 2016 Data Visualization

Crime in Chicago has soared while other metropolitan cities have seen a major decline. To be exact, most crime in Chicago has not seen any major increases except for homicide. Homicides in Chicago in the first 8 months of the year have already soared beyond the sum of homicides in 2016. This begs the question […]

Interactive Google Analytics Dashboards with Tableau 10

Visualizing your data is one of the quickest ways to discover insights and communicate complexities. Google Analytics Dashboards provide you with everything you need to highlight performance trends. However, the user experience and visuals aren’t that great. Using Tableau allows you to connect to the Google Analytics Database and overcome these shortcomings. The data can […]

Is Google Page Speed Insights Accurate?

What does Google Page Speed Score Measure? Google Page Speed Insight Score is often used to grade the speed of a website. However, the same question always arises; is this an accurate measurement. The answer may lie in Google’s own definition of their test. Google defines the Page Speed Insights as a correlation of network-independent […]

F.B.I. Hate Crime Statistics — Visualization

    How I made this Viz: This was a very easy viz to make because there were no parameters or calculations. It was made purely with two essential sheets. One for the Map and the other for the bar chart. I made this by searching the net for hate crime statistics. I ended up […]