Tag: Tableau

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Aditya Parameswaran. Gears (source: Pixabay) Check out “How Pirelli built a data science team from scratch,” a case study available on Safari, to learn more about how data science can enable business transformation. As practitioners who build data science tools, we seem to have a rather myopic obsession with the challenges faced by the Googles, Amazons, and Facebooks of the world—companies with massive and mature data analytics ecosystems, supported by experienced systems engineers, and used by data scientists who are capable programmers. However, these companies represent a tiny fraction of the “big data” universe ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: modern.data. Plotly serves a large bioinformatics and biostats research community. These users leverage the uniquely interactive features of plotly charts for dendrograms, heatmaps, volcano plots, and other visualizations common in this field. Here are 7 resources in Python and R created by plotly bioinformatics and biostats researchers. 1. Jupyter notebook: Visualizing bioinformatics data with plotly and python   John Chase, a former graduate student of Greg Caporaso’s bioinformatics lab at Northern Arizona University, recently uploaded this fantastic introductory Jupyter notebook to Plotly: Visualizing bioinformatics data with plot.ly. We highly recommend a look! 2. Zoom & hover in volcano plots Sahir Bhatnagar has brought interactive ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. There are thousands of Big Data tools out there for data analysis today. Data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making. To save your time, in this post, I will list 30 top big data tools for data analysis in the areas of open source data tools, data visualization tools, sentiment tools, data extraction tools and databases. Open Source Data Tools 1. Knime KNIME Analytics Platform is the leading open ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Pablo Saenz de Tejada. 16 October, 2017 | Pablo Sáenz de Tejada Vizzes in tooltips in Tableau 10.5 uring the Devs on Stage keynote at the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas (next year will be in New Orleans if you want to book your ticket already), one of the most exciting new features was announced for the next version of Tableau 10.5: the possibility to add visualizations in tooltips. Even better, you can try and have a play with this new functionality in the Beta version that is already available. How to add a viz ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here.  The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Announcements Nine out of ten employers say that a credential would be beneficial when seeking to hire specialists in the predictive analytics field. The Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CSPA) credential offered by The CAS Institute will allow you to stand out and accelerate your career by demonstrating your mastery of analytical skills. Learn more at TheCASInstitute.org. Join Intel and ActiveState as they discuss how to ... Read More

Feed: BDN Daily Press Releases Discussions - Big Data News. Author: Andrei Macsin. Alation becomes the first data catalog to deliver governance for insight features supporting all Tableau customers, whether on desktops or servers REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oct. 10, 2017 Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced new ways in Tableau to make Governance for Insight simple, with support for Tableau’s new certification badge delivered in Tableau Server 10.4. Alation’s automated data catalog, with its ability to provide the simplest, most robust way to share curated and certified information for self-service analytics, will leverage the Tableau Certification Badge embedded in Tableau Visualizations ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Craig Bloodworth. 10 October, 2017 | Craig Bloodworth Tableau’s New Extensions API At their annual conference in Vegas, Tableau announced that they’re about to release a new API called the ‘Extensions API’. This new API will allow partners, customers and developers to build custom add-ins for Tableau Dashboards, bringing extra functionality right into Tableau Desktop. Why? So why does Tableau need new custom ‘stuff’ in dashboards? A couple of reasons. First, they’ve found that customers want to do more without having to leave Tableau. Currently, the only answer to reach out to a third party application ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Andy. A little over a year ago, we decided to propose a data visualization course at the first-year level. We had been thinking about this for awhile, but never had the time to teach it given the scheduling constraints we had. When one of the other departments on campus was shut down and the faculty merged in with other departments, we felt that the time was ripe to make this proposal. Course description of the EPsy 1261 data visualization course In putting together the proposal, we knew that: The course would be primarily composed of social science ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here.  The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Featured Resources and Technical Contributions Interesting Problem: Self-correcting or Controlled Random Walks + (Updated) Recursive (not recurrent!) Neural Nets in TensorFlow  A simple neural network with Python and Keras  Bridging the Skills Gap of New York City - A Case Study using Tableau and MySQL  Some Variational Image Processing - Poisson Image Editing and its applications in Python  Free Book: Probability and Statistics Cookbook  9 ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Piet Loubser. The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has been a great custodian of enterprise data, and the foundation for business critical analytics for many years. The growing volumes of business data combined with recent advances in Big Data technology are introducing a market inflection point where enterprise legacy EDWs can no longer effectively address the scale, diversity, and usage challenges posed by the new EDW paradigm. Hortonworks is excited to announce our new partnership with Jethro Data to extend our EDW Optimization solution to help customers address the scale and performance challenges of Enterprise ... Read More