As more organizations lean into the digitization of their processes, data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI are becoming essential in the business landscape. While Tableau has been a favored tool for several years, many companies are now making the switch to Power BI, largely due to its deep integration with other Microsoft products....Continue reading
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How to connect a SharePoint Excel File in Power BI without folder access
As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, tools like Power BI have become indispensable. Power BI‘s power lies in its ability to connect to a plethora of data sources, from traditional databases to cloud-based services and more. One such data source is an Excel file hosted on SharePoint. While the process is relatively straightforward, there...Continue reading
How to Migrate Your Databases to the Cloud
Making a move to migrate your databases to the cloud is an exciting decision. It can be a game-changer in terms of flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and better security. However, the process can sometimes feel a bit daunting with hurdles such as data compatibility issues, potential data loss, and compliance considerations. Don’t worry, though! Here’s a detailed,...Continue reading
How to repair your bad data?
In today’s world, data has become the lifeblood of science, business, and government. It is essential to ensure that data are accurate, complete, and up-to-date. Without accurate data, discovering something novel, building a product or service around that discovery, and monetizing the discovery can become more difficult. In some cases, bad data can be dangerous,...Continue reading
How to Link a Single Visual from Power BI into PowerPoint?
PowerPoint presentations can benefit significantly from incorporating interactive and data-driven content from Power BI. Although there isn’t a direct method for inserting a single Power BI visual into PowerPoint, a workaround exists that involves creating a separate report page containing only the desired visual and linking it to PowerPoint. This blog post will guide you...Continue reading
Minitab vs Power BI: A Comprehensive Guide to Recreating Functions
Minitab and Power BI are both powerful data analysis tools, but they have different strengths and purposes. Minitab is a statistical software package that is commonly used for data analysis and quality control, while Power BI is a data visualization tool that allows you to connect to various data sources, clean and transform data, and...Continue reading
How to Concatenate Data in Power Query?
Concatenating data is a common task in data analysis, and can be done easily in Excel using the concatenate function. However, when it comes to Power Query, concatenating data requires a slightly different approach. In this blog post, let’s see step by step on how to concatenate data in Power Query using M code and...Continue reading
Can you trust your Data?
You have an important decision to make within two weeks, but you’ve just received some new data that, when combined with existing data, could provide game-changing insights. However, you are unsure whether this new information is trustworthy. In such a situation, there are a few steps you can take to proceed with greater confidence or...Continue reading
How Business Intelligence – BI can evolve to better support decision-making?
Business intelligence, which encompasses concepts like decision support and executive information systems, has been around for several decades in the business world. However, it has not been entirely successful. We have thrown complex data warehouses and software tools at business users without providing adequate support, resulting in a lack of effective decision-making. Terms like “ad...Continue reading
What are the best practices to help you create effective data visualizations?
Data visualization is an essential part of data analysis. The process of visualizing data helps to discover patterns, trends, and relationships that might be hidden in raw data. With the help of different types of visualizations, data analysts can easily communicate their findings to stakeholders, making it easier for them to make data-driven decisions. Let’s...Continue reading