These last few days I’ve been exploring the best setting for enterprise analytics when using Tableau. Tableau, like most tools, has database connectors that allow live connections to your database. But one of the benefits of Tableau is able to extract data, package it in a Tableau friendly format (.tde) and boost speed of calculations […]
DAA Practitioner of the Year Finalist!
What an unexpected, humbling and motivating recognition! Earlier this year, to my surprise, I was nominated for the Digital Analytics Association‘s (DAA) Awards for Excellence 2015, Practitioner of the Year. The DAA organizes these yearly awards to recognize people in various position in the industry. I’ve followed these awards for a number of years now never […]
Referencing Cells in Excel with Next Analytics V5
Cell referencing is one of the great advantages of leveraging NEXT Analytics and Excel. Recently I started working with the new Version 5 and found myself scratching my head when it came to referencing cells to define the time period a query – a silly little detail but, let’s write about it because surely I’m […]
Testing UserReport and Google Analyitcs
This blog post from Google Analytics blog features UserReport as one of the tools you can leverage and integrate into your reports to get more information about your customers. [youtube]http://youtu.be/03rb0Wn8c58[/youtube] Please participate in the survey when you see it! Asking questions about users is something I’m constantly asking clients to do. Now there seems to be […]