Reading Time: 3 minutes I don’t usually comment on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics & BI other than to congratulate vendor teams on their work, but I would like to encourage people to at least skim the report. Reprints…
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Sharing Photos of Technical Books Is a Good First Step
Reading Time: 2 minutes A strange trend has developed on social media where people share pictures of technical books they have recently purchased. Sometimes, they share photos of shelves of books they’ve accumulated over the years. This technique obviously works…
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Animated GIF Backgrounds in Power BI
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although I hesitate to publish this post, did you know that Power BI allows animated GIFs as backgrounds for report pages? I’m not advocating the use of animated GIFs in data visualization. Instead, I’m simply pointing…
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Customize the Power BI Report Builder Map Gallery
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the defining features of Power BI’s [paginated] Report Builder vs the current geospatial offerings in Power BI Desktop is the native support for ESRI Shapefiles. If you have worked with maps in Report Builder…
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Microsoft R: A Revolution in Advanced Analytics
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the benefits of working on a team at BlueGranite is the collective expertise that I can tap into when needed. Whether it’s a skill that I am learning or a problem that I am stumped…
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