As defined at cloudflare.com, a virtual machine, is “software that imitates a complete computer system [my note: an operating system, applications, network interfaces; everything except hardware]. It is isolated from the rest of the machine that hosts it and behaves as if it were the only OS on it…” A container, which does not have… 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
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
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