Intern Dashboards: The Rise and Fall of India’s EdTech Market
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 Tableau dashboard, offers a retrospective analysis of the factors […]
Maturing Analytics: Analytics as a Product
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 to do with products? We should be treating our […]
Intern Dashboards: Spotify Insights on World Music
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 features for each song scraped using Spotify’s API. Once I […]
Federated Governance: Part Centralised, Part Devolved
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 all of an organisation’s data into one place can work […]
Why Are My Power BI Locations Mapping My Data Incorrectly?
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 was able to solve the problem, so I want to […]
Maturing Analytics: User Adoption and Data Delivery
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 tackle how you might be building the right thing, but […]
Introduction to Snowflake File Formats
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 with a bunch of optional extra information such as (but […]
A Guide to Power BI Desktop for Tableau Developers
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 the guide for you! For steps on how to create […]
Tips from Assist: Tableau Map Layers Disappearing
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 things in Tableau, several ways to solve this problem, […]
Creating a Data Governance Framework That Drives User Adoption
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 every team and for every user persona. Then, we […]