by gene connolly | Nov 29, 2017 | Data & Analytics |
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 đ But if you arenât careful about how you use this new superpower, can you turn bad data into *really* bad...
by gene connolly | Nov 13, 2017 | Data & Analytics |
After building a complex workflow that finally works and gets you the output you wanted, itâs 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...
by gene connolly | Nov 2, 2017 | Data & Analytics |
I have a client that provides a monthly snapshot of information in an XLSX file. When the data in those files are combined, it paints a historical picture of how data is changing over time that is great grist for an analytics mill. The client process that generates a...
by gene connolly | May 17, 2017 | Data & Analytics |
Does this describe the software procurement process at your company? Â âAnyone can pretty much buy any low cost title at anytimeâ Maybe those purchases fly under your management radar because of the low purchase cost…which is fine, until you realize, after...
by gene connolly | Oct 5, 2016 | Data & Analytics |
Tell me if you see your business in what follows: You sell some type of regularly consumed product or service. You have a lot of competition, your customers have a lot of choices who to buy from, and the switching costs for them are minimal. So you arenât necessarily...
by gene connolly | Sep 22, 2016 | Data & Analytics |
First things first: assuming a predictive model will be a âgood modelâ, how can you tell if itâs a good way to spend money and improve your business, given all the *other* ways you can spend money to improve your business? What if the model ends up being âless goodâ...
