Tool Agnostic Analytics: Yield, Speed and Outliers
What goes into a business process? What comes out? What doesn’t? And why? How fast does your process move inputs to outputs with desired outcomes? With undesired outcomes? What speeds it up or slows it down? Are there outliers or one-time events that skew...
read morePower BI Tips: Calculate 102 – Filter ALL or Filter VALUES?
If you are in Marketing and trying to understand the productivity of various sources of Leads that do or do not convert to Opportunities for Sales, using a tool like Power BI for that analysis can be a great choice. But knowing how to use filter arguments in a...
read morePower BI Tips: Pivot Table from Name/Value Pairs with “M”
When the data you “Get” in Power BI doesn’t come in nicely organized rows and columns, sometimes you need to do more with “Edit Queries” than just using the functions available on the ribbon. And that’s when you need bust out some “M” code to get the job done. In what...
read moreAlteryx Tips: Look Both Ways before you Join
If you are an Excel pro who has been fortunate enough to find Alteryx Designer, you probably love the Join Tool and are feeling OK about breaking up with VLOOKUP 😊 But if you aren’t careful about how you use this new superpower, can you turn bad data into *really* bad...
read morePower BI Tips: CALCULATE 101
One of the most challenging and useful DAX functions to master in building complex measures and calculated columns is the CALCULATE function. In what follows I’ll describe two specific scenarios where knowing how and when to use CALCULATE is a must. My hope is that...
read moreAlteryx Tips: Capture (More) Insights from your Workflow’s “Lost Data”
After building a complex workflow that finally works and gets you the output you wanted, it’s tempting to give yourself a high five and move on. But do you ever think about the data you lose as it passes through Filters and Joins, from input to output, and whether you...
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