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The Bloomberg medal tracker is fun to look at. I think the graphics desk was instructed to use as many new-ish chart types as they could without alienating readers: the…

Databases are an integral part of all of our projects. We store, retrieve, erase, and update our data in the database developed by the application or software. Things get more…

Last month, we challenged our community to create a visualization based around the color red. That particular color gets plenty of use in visual design, and it has a lot…

In Chapter 8 of my new book “The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digitalization Transformation”, I discuss the 8 Laws of Digital Transformation.  My goal for chapter 8 was to…

Updated announcement for Premium Gen2 General Availability Source: PowerBI

Calling all creators! Back in August 2016 we introduced predefined matrix and table styles. We are exploring adding more predefined styles to more visual types to save you precious report…

The New York Times charted speed ranks during the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay. My favorite part is how they got the data, which wasn’t available, so they estimated through photos…

Announcements Get early access to the new StreamSets DataOps Platform. Quickly build and deploy streaming, batch, CDC, ETL and ML pipelines. Deploy across hybrid and multi-cloud platforms in a single…

Cardinality and participation explained for E-R diagrams. How to show cardinality/participation for several methodologies. Examples of notation and diagrams. In my previous posts, I discussed some E-R diagram basics and…

In my previous post, I explored how to use Pandas to work with data frames and similar structures. In this post, I want to go to the next level and…