Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook was published on August 26th and my publisher, Packt Publishing, is offering free copies of the book in exchange for reviews on Amazon or on your blog. With this book, you can: Quickly create impressive and effective graphics which would usually take hours in other tools See lots of illustrations to […]
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UCLA‘s professor Jason Frand defines data mining as this: “data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information – information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both” To become an expert and actually get a job in […]
Continue readingEver since I read the book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte, I am captivated by the idea of creating good design while doing data analysis or dashboard building. Although Excel 2007 charts are much nicer than its previous births, I have started disliking Excel charts. I am even developing an […]
Continue readingBooks on my shelf: Professional Excel Development by Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey This is by far the most authoritative book on Excel development from Add-ins to APIs. A word of caution though, it is not for the beginners. Excel Advanced Report Development by Timothy Zapawa Ever wondered on using Excel as a report development tool? […]
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