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 readingFor the uninitiated, Sparklines are “data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics” according to its inventor Edward Tufte. I always wanted to include them in my trend reports. The challenge: How and Which tool to use? The data came from this report came from a complex query using SQL server and Access that had this format: College Major […]
Continue readingMy gripe about graduate school is that the school focused on well-established software and never embraced nor encouraged open-source software. If they had taught, or at least introduced, these following open-source software, it would have helped us immensely to produce the best looking reports with great data analysis. We, however, had to struggle with SAS/Excel […]
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