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Make or Buy -- How to Acquire Analytics Capability
Many organizations have begun to recognize the benefit of using analytics to support decision-making. At least in the abstract. But how to get the capability is not so clear.
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Many organizations have begun to recognize the benefit of using analytics to support decision-making. At least in the abstract. But how to get the capability is not so clear.
Published at Darkhorse Analytics
The Five Faces of the Analytics Dream Team
Imagine your analytics dream team. Who would you hire, and what would their roles be?
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Imagine your analytics dream team. Who would you hire, and what would their roles be?
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Should I Eat This Fish - A Redesign
A few years ago we worked with the Alberta Government on a tool that would make Fish Consumption Advisories more accessible to the general public. And after working its way through the government’s approvals process that tool is finally here.
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A few years ago we worked with the Alberta Government on a tool that would make Fish Consumption Advisories more accessible to the general public. And after working its way through the government’s approvals process that tool is finally here.
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The Value is in the Data (Wrangling)
If you aspire to be a data scientist, you’re really aspiring to be a data wrangler. You see, 80% of your working hours will be spent wrangling the data. That’s on average. On some projects, you will spend more than 100% of your “working” hours with your lasso. I hope you enjoy that sort of thing.
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If you aspire to be a data scientist, you’re really aspiring to be a data wrangler. You see, 80% of your working hours will be spent wrangling the data. That’s on average. On some projects, you will spend more than 100% of your “working” hours with your lasso. I hope you enjoy that sort of thing.
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Fat Zebras
If you've got a large table with lots of rows, you might get fat. We think that's a good thing.
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If you've got a large table with lots of rows, you might get fat. We think that's a good thing.
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Mapping Data Should Take Seconds (MapInSeconds.com)
If you’ve tried to visualize your data with a map, you know how time-consuming it can be. It shouldn’t take so long or be so difficult, so we built MapInSeconds.com, which takes your data and generates a map - in seconds.
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If you’ve tried to visualize your data with a map, you know how time-consuming it can be. It shouldn’t take so long or be so difficult, so we built MapInSeconds.com, which takes your data and generates a map - in seconds.
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Visualization's Twisted Path
Visualization is not a straight path from vision to reality. It is full of twists and turns, rabbit trails and road blocks, foul-ups and failures. Let's walk through one visualization's twisted path.
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Visualization is not a straight path from vision to reality. It is full of twists and turns, rabbit trails and road blocks, foul-ups and failures. Let's walk through one visualization's twisted path.
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Visualizing Distributions
Let's have a look at the many different methods for displaying distributions. We'll take one data set and display its distribution 16 different ways.
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Let's have a look at the many different methods for displaying distributions. We'll take one data set and display its distribution 16 different ways.
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Own the Adoption
How many times has this happened to you: You get to the end of a gruelling analytics project and the decision maker doesn't listen?
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How many times has this happened to you: You get to the end of a gruelling analytics project and the decision maker doesn't listen?
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Data Looks Better Naked: Maps Edition
In this new installment of our Data Looks Better Naked series, we take on maps. More specifically, the choropleth map.
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In this new installment of our Data Looks Better Naked series, we take on maps. More specifically, the choropleth map.
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House of Cards
An analytics project is really three projects: a change management project stacked on top of a software development project stacked on top of a research project. So, how does one prevent the whole thing from collapsing under its own weight?
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An analytics project is really three projects: a change management project stacked on top of a software development project stacked on top of a research project. So, how does one prevent the whole thing from collapsing under its own weight?
Published at Darkhorse Analytics
Make the Grade
Recently the Alberta government hosted Apps for Alberta - a competition using the Province’s open data. Being an Alberta-based data visualization firm, we felt encouraged, perhaps even duty-bound, to enter. So we did. We managed to pull together a couple submissions, the first of which is a look ...
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Recently the Alberta government hosted Apps for Alberta - a competition using the Province’s open data. Being an Alberta-based data visualization firm, we felt encouraged, perhaps even duty-bound, to enter. So we did. We managed to pull together a couple submissions, the first of which is a look ...
Published at Darkhorse Analytics
Make the Grade
Our entry into the Apps for Alberta competition takes a look at high school grades across the province.
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Our entry into the Apps for Alberta competition takes a look at high school grades across the province.
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Radar: More Evil Than Pie?
It is by now common knowledge among the viz-savvy crowd that pie charts are best avoided. Many pixels have been used explaining why pies are bad, when occasionally pies are good, and my personal favorite from my colleague at Darkhorse: … Continue reading →
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It is by now common knowledge among the viz-savvy crowd that pie charts are best avoided. Many pixels have been used explaining why pies are bad, when occasionally pies are good, and my personal favorite from my colleague at Darkhorse: … Continue reading →
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Radar: More Evil Than Pie?
Have you met the pie chart’s evil cousin: the radar chart. It may not be as ubiquitous as the pie, but it can be more nefarious.
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Have you met the pie chart’s evil cousin: the radar chart. It may not be as ubiquitous as the pie, but it can be more nefarious.
Published at Darkhorse Analytics
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