As Snowflake becomes more and more feature rich, we’ve become surrounded by all manner of suffixes to the word “Snow.” In this post, I’ll summarise the tools available and what their intended use is. This is only meant to be a brief overview, so I’ve...
The decline of a large enterprise is often the result of numerous small issues compounding over time. However, there is a tendency to focus on less relevant aspects and overlook the single most crucial element: the customers. This case study, presented in the form of a...
Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. In Part 3, we discussed why user adoption stumbles and explored different delivery paths for analytics. Now, in Part 4, we will talk about product management. I know — you’re in analytics and data. What does that have...
Being an avid music lover, I always wondered about various factors that make up an entire song. This project provided me an opportunity to do so. I stumbled upon an amazing data source in Kaggle that had authentic Spotify data with a lot of key...
Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of interest in the data mesh architecture first proposed back in 2018 by Zhamak Dehghani. It offers a practical alternative to the previously dominant notion of a single centralised data warehouse. Trying to gather...
It can be a very confusing or frustrating experience whenever a technical tool doesn’t do what you want it to do, or even what it should be doing using common sense! I recently had some issues with the mapping visualization feature in Power BI and...
Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. In Part 1, we looked at our job to be done and why it wasn’t building dashboards. In Part 2, we dove into the details of how dashboards can be a mismatch to users’ needs. Now, we’ll...
File formats are database objects used by snowflake to ingest flat files. Consider file formats as your way of giving snowflake information about the file so it knows how to ingest those flat files in an optimal fashion. You specify the type of file along...
You may have the job title of data analyst, or you may work in HR or sales. Regardless, the versatility of modern data visualization tools allows everyone access to self-serve analytics. If you already have Tableau experience but are interested in Power BI, this is...
Customer Question: "When I’m using filters on my map visualization, if the filter returns null values for any state, that state disappears from the map. How can I make a map that will show state outlines even when there’s no data?" There are, as with many...
In this six-part series, we’ve discussed the adoption history, planning a BI Rollout, decentralizing ownership of data workflows and operational definitions of key terms like data governance, data lineage and data provenance. We discussed change management and ideas for spreading data literacy throughout your company...
In the following example, users can switch between a line chart displaying Sales by Month and a bar chart for Sales by Region by clicking a button: This interactive feature was developed in Power BI. The same functionality can be accomplished in Tableau by combining...
An issue and an opportunity for nearly every existing business intelligence system is keeping it running well and minimizing costs. Cloud-based software makes it easy to spin up a data warehouse or a data lake, use data transformation tools, create data science studies and publish dashboard...
Business intelligence software which includes databases, data transformation tools and software for searching and presenting interactive reports, as dashboards have been around for 25 years. In the last ten years, these tools have become easier to use and more able to deal with very large...
Often, discussions about data governance begin and end with security. Preventing unauthorized access or the loss of proprietary data is crucial. Data governance also ensures that your data systems comply with regulatory requirements and protect privacy. You are undoubtedly aware of the horror stories regarding data...
This article intends to provide a brief overview of what all the talk about Snowflake Native Apps Marketplace is about, how organizations can utilize the space to monetize their offerings, and how consumers can benefit from these third-party off-the-shelf applications, ending with detailed instructions to...
Selecting business intelligence software and planning a rollout is a significant undertaking. The real work should begin well before you start selecting software. You must comprehensively assess your entire organization’s information needs, wants and data workflows. Building a Strategic Vision Roadmap We call these planning sessions Strategic...
Executives understand the value of high-quality, timely information. When asked why they invested in business intelligence software, they can cite examples that explain how their investments paid off. Most feel the paybacks achieved justify their investments, but they also believe that the adoption of the...
Tableau is a robust tool that allows you to build dashboards in a multitude of ways, which is part of what makes it great. The flip side is that it can be easy to let little inefficiencies pile up and affect the ultimate performance of...
This article reflects on my attempt at transforming a previously created Tableau dashboard. This transformation was greatly influenced by the insights gained from the excellent two-week Tableau data visualization training provided to me as a BI intern at InterWorks. Most humans are visual creatures. We consume...
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