The BI Cantos: Conducting Discovery Sessions
An essential part of any business intelligence system plan is to collect information on the vital data workflows within your company. An ounce of discovery is worth a pound of remediation. -Adapted from Benjamin Franklin During discovery, identify the business processes that comprise operations and provide data outputs. A typical list of workflows may include: […]
A Tableau Style Guide Made in Tableau
One of the reasons I gravitated towards a career in data visualization was just that — the visualizations. My background is in the visual arts and to see data, facts and numbers, concepts and correlations, all brilliantly designed and represented in colorful graphs activated both sides of my brain. I also have a deep appreciation […]
The BI Cantos: Team Composition
This section summarizes the skills and knowledge your deployment team must have. Your deployment team will set up the software, define the proof-of-concept (POC) deliverables and perform efficacy testing. They will work with your consulting partner and end users to ensure the project deliverables meet expectations. Suppose the POC sprint does not result in a […]
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for Tableau
As data grows more and more entrenched into everyday business decisions, the importance of questioning our data and how we interpret it becomes vital. At InterWorks, we work with all different types of data, organizations and decisions. We know the impact that data can have, which is why we find it necessary to think about […]
Challenges of NLP and Solutions with Dataiku
In the previous post (that you can read here), we started doing some analysis on airline reviews. We did very basic data preparation, used the Dataiku Sentiment Analysis plugin and evaluated the model with the help of a confusion matrix. In this blogpost, we will go one step further and apply some Natural Language Processing […]
The BI Cantos: Developing a Strategic Roadmap
A strategy vision roadmap (SVR) is a document that details the purpose of the project, expected benefits, training plans, project timeframe, proof-of-concept testing and validation. The SVR summarizes the overall project plan while also time-phasing all significant sub-projects (sprints) necessary to complete all the deliverables. It should include a preliminary budget for the entire project. […]
The BI Cantos: Initial Deployment Considerations
In this post, I’ll cover team composition, focusing on technical and operational staff that will form the core of your team. The need for more detailed information about your business drives the desire to deploy a BI system. Typical goals include achieving better reporting, more detailed analysis and the desire to perform these activities faster […]
No Closed Doors: Making Dataviz Accessible for All
One thing I noticed: there’s one last step that I always take before heading out into the street with two overflowing grocery bags. Just before the exit, I push the handicap door opener on my right. And it stays open long enough for me and an elderly lady to pass through without struggling with the […]
Title Case Formatting in Tableau with the PROPER() Function
Exciting news for Tableau users! With version 2022.4, Tableau has introduced the highly anticipated PROPER() function. This function makes it easy to transform string data into title case format, where the first letter of each word is capitalized, and all other letters are in lowercase. It offers a quick solution for formatting names and proper […]
The BI Cantos: Introduction
This blog post series aims to provide the unfamiliar leader or participant with a view of what is required to successfully deploy a business intelligence (BI) system to ensure success. Deploying a BI system is challenging. Why would you want to undertake a project to build such a system? To get better information faster. Your […]