Category Archives: Business Intelligence

Creating a Tableau Report level View Filter (1 report varying view depending on tableau user logged in)

Posted on April 15, 2018 by mx

Creating a Report level View Filter in Tableau (1 report varying view depending on tableau user logged in) use case: You want a report to show an employee’s daily sales and for the employee to only see his data and … Continue reading →

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What I think of every time I hear Stakeholders

Posted on February 14, 2017 by mx

What I think of every time I hear Major Stakeholder Continue reading →

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Re-Blog: 10 Risks that Beset Data Programmes

Posted on February 13, 2017 by mx

Credits to: Peter James Thomas: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-risks-beset-data-programmes-peter-james-thomas Not establishing a dedicated team. The team never escapes from “the day job” or legacy / BAU issues; the past prevents the future from being built. Staff lack skills and prior experience of data … Continue reading →

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Amazon Redshift is an amazing database product

Posted on November 3, 2016 by mx

Redshift is : Fast like Ferrari Cheap like a Ford Fiesta Useful like a Minivan Self Driving Auto-magics like Tesla with Autopilot Key features: Really fancy features under-the-hood: -interleaved sort keys -columnar distributed storage -smart parallel execution -IO optimization (return … Continue reading →

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Review of two New Cloud BI tools : Snowflake and Looker

Posted on October 16, 2016 by mx

Snowflake: data warehouse in the cloud (specially amazon) Snowflake compute is basically an analytics computing database that has scalability. Data is stored / shared on AWS S3 buckets instead of in snowfalek. You spin up snowflake tool injest and load into it’s proprietary … Continue reading →

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My personal review of a few top Business Intelligence tools

Posted on September 6, 2016 by mx

The Business Intelligence Space changes every year but some things remain the same. Here’s my reviews of some of the most common BI software in the market; some I have used extensively.   Top Dogs: (aka expensive enterprise software) MicroStrategy … Continue reading →

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