If you’re just getting started with building reports and other analyses in Excel using Python, it be can be confusing to see how all the steps and packages fit together. This post and accompanying …
Advancing into Analytics: the reading list
You can learn a lot about a book by reviewing its bibliography: often, an author's biases and beliefs will be on full display there. I suppose that's the same for me: if you list all the books I …
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What is an open source software distribution?
I remember when I first got into Python and heard about Anaconda. It wasn't really clear to me if Anaconda was a "dialect" of Python code, a really awesome suite of tools for working with Python, or …
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Free checklist: 30 Days to Data Analyst
"How do I get better at data?" is a question I get a lot. It's an interesting one to answer -- plenty of great resources are out there, it's just a matter of finding the right sequence for the right …
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Learning guide: Introduction to Tableau, half-day workshop
Data analytics isn't just about crunching numbers and hacking data pipelines. It's about telling stories and, as Rod Stewart tells us, every picture tells a story. So, data visualization goes …
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Learning guide: SQL for Excel users, half-day workshop
I like to call SQL the cool old uncle of analytics because, no matter what you are trying to do with your data, SQL has probably done it before. For as impressive as the new Microsoft stack is, …
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