Let’s set aside technical considerations and just explore a few unorthodox data visuals. Why? Because doing so helps us to reward viewers eye’s and brains. At work, our eyes and brains are often forced to slog through repetitive logic and boring visual symbols that leave us uninspired, but an interesting visual can nudge us in… Read More
Data Models are a’changin! To learn about these changes, please join me Saturday, Oct 15, as I present “Lean Data Model Storming for Data Project Leaders” at the Southland Technology (SoTec) Conference 2016. To view my session abstract, click here. This premier event, underwritten by PMI, AITP, IIBA and QAI, will bring together hundreds of… Read More
I’ve just added a new entry to ‘Challenge – Solution – Impact’ based on a recent engagement. Click on the above title to have a look.
Without support from I.T., analysts increasingly need to perform data preparation tasks of varying complexity in order to wrangle data into shape for current analytic needs. Using Alteryx Designer, many such tasks are simple and intuitive. Let’s consider an example. For the completed Alteryx workflow sample published in Alteryz product documentation, assume that, due to… Read More
A recent customer gave me a chance to exercise Tableau features, on both the Server and Desktop. Although this write-up is focussed more on calculation than visualization, it also demonstrates my approach to visualizing complex data with a simple, impossible to misunderstand, presentation. My customer wanted visualizations that would bring simplicity to a rather complex… Read More
Greetings, Click here to read my Amazon review of Ralph Hughes’ book on Agile DW for leaders. Well written and timely, it offers innovative, not widely-known methods for expediting the delivery of priority insights and of keeping your data infrastructure lean and responsive to evolving business needs. Daniel
Another published slide deck, presented in Huntington Beach at the recent SQL Saturday Event. To view the deck, click here. Viewer comments are always welcome!
This post for data modelers, like a good portion of my online content, is in the form of published slides. To view them, click here. If you like them, feel free to subscribe here for the occasional new entry.
Since I am currently working with Snowflake Elastic Datawarehouse (see http://www.snowflakecomputing.com), and excited about what experts regard as it’s game-changing innovations (for a summary, see http://www.snowflake.net/blog/top-10-cool-things-i-like-about-snowflake/ ), I want to take a moment and describe my own personal favorite features. But first, some quick background: Snowflake is a built-for-cloud, MPP column-oriented, **ANSI-SQL-COMPLIANT** data warehouse service… Read More
I recently came across an interesting data-modeling case study. John Giles, who wrote it, is also the author of the insightful and — for us data geeks — entertaining book, ‘The Nimble Elephant’. In this UDV case study, John combined his strategy of applying, and establishing variations from, universal data-modeling patterns to Dan Linstedt’s Data Vault EDW methodology, with very practical results in a challenging… Read More
