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Why I Wrote Yet Another SQL Tutorial
Posted on Mar 08, 2018If you haven’t yet learned SQL, know someone who’s learning, or want to brush up in our practice areas, check out the new SQL Tutorial....
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What 90,000 Dashboards Tell Us About Dashboard Creation
Posted on Mar 01, 2018We analyzed 90,000 dashboards, and the findings showed interesting take-aways on dashboard creation, dashboard popularity and viewership....
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Will 2018 Be a Good Year to Raise Funds?
Posted on Feb 02, 2018Some historical trends tend to indicate whether or not there is VC funding money out there to be won. we dug into the data to determine whether or not the S&P and other market indicators are correlated to funding availability....
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Buffalo Winter Weather: is it Really That Cold?
Posted on Jan 19, 2018Is it really that cold in Buffalo, New York? In this blog post, our Data Evangelist put that question to the test with the help of some data....
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The Gap Between Household Incomes and the Cost of a Home
Posted on Jan 02, 2018Is the price of purchasing a home in the United States skyrocketing? We dug through the median income and home cost data to find out if this trends was true or false, broken down by state. Read what we uncovered from the data....
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Distance Running and its Closing Gender Gap
Posted on Dec 15, 2017In this blog post, we examine whether or not there is a closing gender gap in the world of distance running. Continue reading as we delve deeper into this question and provide answers by way of data analysis....
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Traditional BI Buzzwords for Modern Data Teams
Posted on Dec 12, 2017Business Intelligence has a lot of jargon. After seven years in this industry, I'm sharing a curated version of my list with definitions....
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Our BART Ads and The Power of Informed Decision Making
Posted on Dec 07, 2017In September 2017, we ran ten different Ads that lined the entire Montgomery BART platform. Now, read about how all that data came together and how it helped one tourist couple plan out their entire day visiting San Francisco....
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Fire and Rain: How Rain Impacted the NorCal Wildfires
Posted on Nov 30, 2017The 2017 Fire Season in Northern California was one of the most costly and deadly on record. 2017 ranks as the most deadly, and is among the most costly in terms of Structures and Acreage Destroyed. We've visualized the data....
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Normal Distributions and Their Abnormal Occurrence
Posted on Nov 17, 2017If a collection of data is normally distributed we’ll see the results show on a bell curve, and that bell curve won’t require any manipulation of data. Read more to find out how a bell curve and a real curve compare....