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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5 Ways to Create Maps in Microsoft Power BI
Reading Time: 5 minutes UPDATED June 3, 2017: There have been a year’s worth of updates to Power BI since this “5 Ways” post was originally published. Please see the updated “10 Ways to Create Maps in Microsoft Power BI”…
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Beyond Analytics: The Cortana Intelligence Suite
Reading Time: 3 minutes Goodbye Cortana Analytics. Hello Cortana Intelligence. In an announcement at the Build conference today, Microsoft revealed the changing face of Cortana Analytics for Azure. More than simple semantic changes, the Cortana Intelligence Suite now includes the new Bot…
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Embed a Live Microsoft Power BI Report in Jupyter
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a quick snippet showing how to host a live Power BI report in a Jupyter notebook using Power BI’s”Publish to Web” feature. Jupyter manages inline HTML fairly well when you are using Markdown, but it fails…
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R Visuals or Custom Visuals in Microsoft Power BI?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past few years, there has been a movement in R to create packages that bind to JavaScript libraries to make R more interactive. Notably, htmlwidgets and rCharts are two examples that come to mind. In an…
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