Category: Analytics

Analytics

Carrier pigeon vs. internet upload speeds

In some rural areas, upload speeds are crawlingly slow, which can make it difficult to send things on the internet. In some cases, a carrier pigeon might even be faster….

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Premiums on electricity during Covid lockdowns in Italy

During Covid lockdowns, power companies in Italy charged premiums to cover increased prices for electricity, but it appears that isn’t the full story. For Bloomberg, Vernon Silver, Eric Fan, and…

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Empower Power BI users with Microsoft Fabric and Copilot

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Microsoft Fabric and the public preview of Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, including the experience for Power BI. With the launch of…

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Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary

Welcome to the November 2023 update. We’ve got a lot of great features this month including DAX Query view, Semantic Model Scale-out, and Advanced Filtering for Paginated Reports.  There is…

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Creativity Isn’t Just Remixing

This is not the first time that I’ve written about AI creativity, and I doubt that it will be the last. It’s a question that comes up repeatedly, and that…

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Animated map shows the search for the best path

When you look up directions with a mapping application, there are algorithms that run to find the shortest route. Jan Pánek made an interactive map that animates the search with…

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Datasets renamed to semantic models

Datasets are being renamed to semantic models in Power BI and Fabric. This will make the product clearer and more usable and reflects the immense progress that Power BI datasets…

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Historical chart valued at $7.5m

The map sold for $239,000 at a Christie’s auction, but it was misdated and is a couple of centuries older than previously thought: It’s the fourth oldest surviving portolan chart…

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✚ Pushing Out the Charts

Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we look closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau. In the land of what-if and what-about, it’s…

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Music theory in interactive visuals

muted.io is a set of visual tools to help you learn music theory. Learn about notes, chords, and scales through a playful and colorful interface. Tags: music, piano, theory Source:…