Category: Analytics

Analytics

✚ Towards Unfamiliar Data Representation

Visualization tends towards familiarity and convenience, which is useful for getting things done and reading data quickly. But the familiar is also less fun and can be stifling. Become a…

Analytics

Occupation and Salary Rankings, Each Decade Since 1970

Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else?…

Analytics

Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR) in Power BI Desktop developer mode (Preview)

Enhancing team collaboration and automation is crucial for any enterprise BI development, which is the primary goal of Power BI Desktop developer mode. The Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR)…

Analytics

Visualize This on storytelling with data

I talked to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic about my early motivations, FD origins, the new book, how I work, and data things. Listen to the episode here. Cole, who runs storytelling…

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Mapping hurricane winds with avocado of uncertainty

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different route to to show the uncertainty of wind speeds: Wind speed probability data shows you the likelihood…

Analytics

Power BI June 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the June 2024 update. Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Power BI. You can now download large semantic models, Power BI enhanced report…

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Answers: Generative AI as Learning Tool

Learn more from the Generative AI Success Stories Superstream on June 12th. At O’Reilly, we’re not just building training materials about AI. We’re also using it to build new kinds of learning…

Analytics

when the background isn’t white

The majority of graphs and slides you see from us here feature plain, white backgrounds. While that’s a typical situation when communicating, it certainly isn’t the only one. At times,…

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What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part III): Strategy

To hear directly from the authors on this topic, sign up for the upcoming virtual event on June 20th, and learn more from the Generative AI Success Stories Superstream on…

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is your point clear?

Have you ever found yourself staring at a graph or slide, wondering what the creator was trying to convey? Perhaps you’ve sat through a presentation, only to be left scratching…