• Home
  • Services
  • Samples
  • About
  • Blogs
  • Contact
Select Page

Tool Agnostic Analytics: Effective Dashboards and the Last Mile

by gene connolly | Nov 26, 2018 | Data & Analytics | 0 comments

You are going to build a dashboard. You’ve got the question you need to answer…check! And you have the data to build the required calculations…check check! But if you don’t walk that last mile with your target end users about *how* they want to see and...

Tool Agnostic Analytics: Building Effective Dashboards

by gene connolly | Oct 26, 2018 | Data & Analytics | 0 comments

I recently came across a good Tableau white paper entitled “10 Best Practices for Building Effective Dashboards” by Ellen Nadelhoffer, Senior Technical Writer at Tableau. (You can find it here https://www.tableau.com/asset/building-effective-dashboards-core) It got me...

Tool Agnostic Analytics: Yield, Speed and Outliers

by gene connolly | Sep 19, 2018 | Data & Analytics | 0 comments

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 your...

Alteryx Tips: Look Both Ways before you Join

by gene connolly | Nov 29, 2017 | Data & Analytics | 0 comments

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...

Alteryx Tips: Capture (More) Insights from your Workflow’s “Lost Data”

by gene connolly | Nov 13, 2017 | Data & Analytics | 0 comments

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...

Alteryx Tips: Huge Time Saver Combining XLSX Files with Different Schema

by gene connolly | Nov 2, 2017 | Data & Analytics | 0 comments

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...
« Older Entries

Recent Posts

  • Power BI Tips: Filter ALL, Filter VALUES and KEEPFILTERS
  • Tool Agnostic Analytics: Effective Dashboards and the Last Mile
  • Tool Agnostic Analytics: Building Effective Dashboards
  • Tool Agnostic Analytics: Yield, Speed and Outliers
  • Power BI Tips: Calculate 102 – Filter ALL or Filter VALUES?

Archives

  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • May 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • April 2016
  • November 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015

Categories

  • Data & Analytics
  • Knowledge Management
  • Power BI
  • Uncategorized

Got Questions? Let’s Talk

info@connollyconsultants.com

Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress