Category: Business Intelligence

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Mark Johnston. Over the past decade, as customers’ demands have changed, in-store sales have declined and shareholder pressure has risen, many retailers have turned to data as a way to survive an increasingly cut-throat industry. But turning to data means nothing if you don’t also understand how to use it to your advantage. To that end, Domo and customer-experience specialists One Connected Community (OCC) hosted 17 senior retail leaders in London last month for a thought-provoking, interactive workshop on all things retail, data and digital. What follows are my takeaways from each of the four main ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Kent Marten. The second function we added to Tableau is called MakeLine. This function is useful when you want to visualize the connection between two points on a map. If you have ever built an Origin-Destination map or worked with pick-up and drop-off datasets, MakeLine makes connecting the dots simple because you do not have to replicate rows of data or perform any pre-processing, so long as you have the latitude and longitude for the start and end of your data. A great use case for working with origins and destinations are flight routes. You will ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. In these modern times, my utility bill has a bar chart so I can see how my current consumption compares to my historical usage. I decided to create my own version of this utility bill bar chart, and make a few improvements along the way. If you're into SGplot bar charts, you might learn a thing or two from this example! But first, you need to guess what kind of utility data I'll be plotting. Is it water, sewer, power, or gas?!? Here's a hint, in the form of a picture my friend Annie ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Gwilym Lockwood. 14 June, 2019 How to highlight viz-in-tooltips in Tableau 2019.2 I recently discovered that you can use parameter actions to highlight (rather than filter) viz in tooltips. It’s pretty straightforward to set up, and it means you can add a nice bit of extra context to your graphs. You can follow along with the example I use here by going to this link and downloading the workbook. I started out by making a radial graph of this year’s Giro d’Italia results. I wanted to make something circular to look like a bike wheel ... Read More

Feed: Apple Machine Learning Journal. Author: . Deep neural networks are a milestone technique in the advancement of modern machine perception systems. However, in spite of the exceptional learning capacity and improved generalizability, these neural models still suffer from poor transferability. This is the challenge of domain shift—a shift in the relationship between data collected across different domains (e.g., computer generated vs. captured by real cameras). Models trained on data collected in one domain generally have poor accuracy on other domains. In this article, we discuss a new domain adaptation process that takes advantage of task-specific decision boundaries and the ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. You probably already know that leading analyst firms have been quoting data lake failure rates of 85% for some time now. You may not be aware that one of those same leading analyst firms are now also forecasting that, by 2020, 30% of data lakes will be built on standard relational DBMS (database management system) technology “at equal or lower cost than Hadoop” because – and I quote - “application performance is superior” and “most data going into data lakes is relational.” Put those two things together and you start to understand why MapR has recently gone to the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Gloria Cabero. Sin duda, el liderazgo es una de las habilidades fundamentales que garantiza nuestro éxito en el mundo de los negocios, y como mujeres, siempre nos hemos visto en la obligación de respaldar cada uno de nuestros logros a través de un fuerte compromiso laboral. Sin embargo, ser una mujer trabajadora no es la única cualidad que necesitamos para sobresalir en un ambiente altamente competitivo, también debemos destacar por la forma en que enfrentamos los retos que se nos presentan diariamente en nuestra vida profesional y personal, sin perder de vista nuestras prioridades. Esta es ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. The data consumers within your organization aren’t a homogeneous group, so you must adapt your data management solutions accordingly. At one end of the spectrum is the ideal, “one-size-fits-all” solution. At the other end is a customized set of capabilities for each individual user that seems ideal, but is unworkable. How then do you incrementally approach the ideal solution?The most effective data solutions are formed by generalizing your user community into a few key groups by skillset and role objectives, data consumption habits and applied tools associated with those data needs, and then deploying the ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Lilach Manheim, Mike Cisneros. What do we mean when we say “design?” We did mention one reason there’s so much bad design in data visualization. Another reason that “design” causes so many disagreements in data visualization is that different people in the conversations are using “design” to mean different things. Design is a loaded term. It means many different things in many different contexts. Maybe most commonly in general usage, it’s a synonym for “aesthetics.” Maybe in some people’s definitions, design is a term solely reserved for how things look, which others might also include how ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Sophie Sparkes. 31 May, 2019 Tableau 2019.2 New Features This is a guest post by Data School Alumni Marc Reid. This post first appeared on Marc’s blog. Please check out Marc’s blog for more great posts on recent Tableau features. Version 2019.2 of Tableau is probably the biggest release I’ve seen since starting to use the product in early 2017. The ability to dynamically show and hide floating containers along with the functionality to pass values from your data in the view through to parameters with the new Parameter Actions has opened up some really ... Read More