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RStudio makes another high-profile hire
After Jenny Bryan and Max Kuhn joined the company last fall, Hadley Wickham told me he didn't plan to add to his team "in the near future." It looks like the near future has passed.
Review: Amazon QuickSight covers the BI basics
A promising data analysis tool in the cloud, QuickSight is easy to use but limited in terms of visualization types.
Tableau moves to subscription pricing for its BI products
Tableau is making a big change in the way it sells its business intelligence products. The company announced Thursday that all of its software will be available as a subscription, rather than a single license plus a service fee.
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Quick hands-on: Tableau adds shapefile, KML & GeoJSON imports for custom maps
You can now use your own geospatial files to create custom choropleth maps in Tableau.
Mapping in R just got a whole lot easier
Thanks to the R simple features project and packages like tmaps that support it, choropleth maps are now a breeze to create with R. I'll walk you through mapping median U.S. wages for IT managers. And don't miss the last step: A tiny...
Facebook releases 'Prophet' -- its free forecasting tools -- for Python and R
Prophet is aimed specifically at business problems such as computer infrastructure capacity planning.
Data visualization tools: The features users love and hate
It seems like making sense of data is everyone’s job now. Here are the pros and cons of five leading data visualization tools, as reported by enterprise users of the products.
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Achieving Availability for All-Flash Data Centers
Managing data is a key concern for businesses. Recent surveys of CEOs and IT decision-makers found that. Read more to learn out how.
Best tips & takeaways from RStudio Conference
I'll be sharing the most interesting things I hear, see and learn at this week's big R event.
What's up with RStudio's 2 high-profile hires?
I talk to Chief Scientist and R 'tidyverse' guru Hadley Wickham to find out.
ZoneSavvy taps big data to help SMBs find best sites for businesses
Location, location, location: As the old joke goes, those are the three keys to business success. Now, with big data analysis, corporations can be smarter than ever before about where to open up new offices or businesses.
Sisense brings its analytics platform to chat bots
Analytics firm Sisense has brought its BI platform to chat bots, allowing customers to ask natural-language questions about their data while in Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger or Telegram.
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Integrated Deployment Guide
Learn more about creating fast backups from storage snapshots for quick and efficient item-level recovery.
R resources for Election Night
Want to geek out with data as the returns come in? Here are some ideas.
Why I won't be in suspense this presidential election night (in tweets)
I'm with Sam Wang: There's drama, and then there's data.
IBM engineer sees AR trumping VR for data visualization
When it comes to enterprise data visualization, IBM Software Engineer Rosstin Murphy thinks augmented reality trumps virtual reality. Here's why.
Many executives still mistrust insights from data and analytics
Organizations say they are increasingly focusing on data-driven decision-making to guide their businesses, but a majority of business leaders lack confidence in the insights generated from data and analytics. Professional services...
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Pure Storage and Veeam Backup and Replication for Protecting Mission Critical Data
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Microsoft adds R data visualizations without R to Power BI
You can now use some R visuals without actually knowing R
With IBM's Watson, GlaxoSmithKline tackles sniffle and cough questions
GlaxoSmithKline plans to team up with IBM's artificial intelligence-fueled Watson to reach customers.
MicroStrategy Desktop BI software now free
Today's announcement adds to the no-cost self-service BI landscape that include Tableau Public, Microsoft Power BI and some versions of Qlik, among others.
Gartner: A.I. to become a top business investment priority
Mention artificial intelligence and a discussion about the robot wipeout of humankind is sure to follow. But it's also a technology that businesses will increasingly trust in decision-making, Gartner analysts said at the research...
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