Today's Q&A is with Anna Kirkland Smith founder of the Data Scientista Society located here in the research triangle, NC. I only asked Anna one question, but her response definitely inspired a …
Bridging the Data Gap
The gap starts small. What we see is pretty much what we know. The questionnaire, the response rates, the frequencies, and the datasets. We can see it all, from top to bottom, nothing …
When keeping it simple is stupid.
When I was a young kid my uncle had a stroke. A middle aged man with a wife and three daughters, it changed his life completely. Not so long after his stroke my uncle came to live with us, …
Cleaning and Recoding in Tableau Prep
In late April of this year (2018) Tableau released a new tool called Tableau Prep. So what is Tableau Prep? You know all that very unsexy data prep stuff you have to do before you can create …
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How to use Tableau as a Simple User Interface for Data
Let's not overthink Tableau. It's a tool, and as a tool it can do some pretty cool things. But only if you have a reason to use it. Over the upcoming weeks I'm going to focus on specific …
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Our puny brains can’t handle all this data.
I was trying to figure out how much data is flying around on the internet and I stumbled into this report by CISCO. Their estimate of daily global internet traffic in 2016 was about 23 million …
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