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The Economist: Fostering a data-driven culture

Fostering a data-driven culture is an Economist Intelligence Unit report. It explores the challenges in nurturing a data-driven culture, and what companies can do to meet them.

  • Business Dashboards

Designing Efficient Workbooks

At Tableau, we provide a visual analytics experience that is fast, easy, and beautiful for any user at any level of experience. Tableau is at its best when part of an iterative cycle of exploration...

  • Big Data
  • Data Visualization
  • Mobile

The 5 Most Influential Data Visualizations of All Time

Data helps find opportunities and resolve misunderstandings. These 5 visualizations—the works of Snow, Rosling, Minard, Nightingale, and Priestley—are evidence of that. They influenced people’s...

  • Working with Data
  • Big Data

Maximizing the Value of Analytics and Big Data

As prior Aberdeen research has shown managing growing volumes, speed and complexity of data is challenge enough. But, once you have corralled your data, how do you get value from it? This paper...

  • Big Data
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Visualization

Tableau for the Enterprise: An IT Overview

Tableau helps people see and understand their data. Gone are the days when insight from data was restricted to a few erudite analysts and IT. The era of data discovery presents a new set of...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Dashboards

7 signs you need self-service reports & what's in it for IT

In the age of data discovery, a lot is riding on IT leaders and their teams. Managing the rapidly evolving data infrastructure is a challenge, not to mention the delicate balance between data...

  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Dashboards
  • Data Discovery

Get More for Your Money: Get More Insight From SAP

In this white paper, Aberdeen Senior Analyst David White for Business Intelligence and ERP Analyst Nick Castellina team up to look at the value customers can get from applying Business Intelligence...

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  • Charting, Mapping, Graphing
  • Data Visualization
  • Survey Analysis
  • Time Series

Which Type of Chart or Graph is Right for You?

You’ve got data and you’ve got questions, but what's the best way to visualize that data to get the answers you need? Transforming data into an effective visualization or dashboard is the first step...

  • Business Dashboards
  • Data Visualization

5 Steps to Prevent & Detect Fraud Using Data Analytics

The sophistication and complexity of fraud schemes continue to grow and outclass conventional anti-fraud measures. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) 2018 Report to the...

  • Data Visualization
  • Big Data
  • Business Dashboards
  • Live connect
  • Charting, Mapping, Graphing

Excel: Great hammer, lousy screwdriver

For many, Excel is the go-to analysis tool of choice. But as pressure mounts to glean more insight from your data, Excel can’t always deliver the insight you seek. Trying to use Excel for advanced,...