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4 Top Trends in Healthcare Data Analysis to Adopt Today

From changing reimbursement models to an increasingly empowered patient base, hospitals face pressure to make better use of their data. But how do you turn ever-expanding volumes of data into...

  • Working with Data

3 Steps to Turn Retail Data Into Profit

Today’s empowered customer has more choices than ever—and higher expectations. With customers interacting across multiple channels and demanding consistent brand experiences across them all,...

  • Advanced Analytics

Tableau and R: FAQ

This document answers 10 frequently asked questions about Tableau’s integration with R. For questions about getting started, how to set up R integration and the Rserve package with Tableau Desktop...

  • Big Data
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7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data

Big data just keeps getting bigger and more useful. Some companies housed data before they could harness it, and now they are reaping the rewards. The reality is that big data will continue to...

  • Industry Analysts
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  • Data Visualization

The BI Survey 13: The Customer Verdict

The Business Analytics Research Council (BARC) results from the world’s largest and most comprehensive survey of business intelligence end-users ranks Tableau as #1 of all 30 participating vendors in...

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Top 10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2014

The innovation in data and analytics continues to accelerate, transforming the staid old business intelligence industry into a new source of value for the enterprise. The result has been data in the...

  • Working with Data

8 Ways Universities are Making an Impact with Data

Universities and colleges strive to grow and fulfill their mission of educating their communities. Communicating the data around that mission—how many students are graduating? What does the student...

  • Advanced Analytics

Using R and Tableau

R is a popular open-source environment for statistical analysis. Tableau Desktop can now connect to R through calculated fields and take advantage of R functions, libraries, packages and even saved...

  • Data Visualization
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5 Charts Every Sales Leader Should be Looking At

Measuring and monitoring sales progress by simply looking at percent of quota achieved, whether for an individual or for an entire organization, is no longer enough to be successful as a sales leader...

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  • Data Discovery

Visualization: Set Your Analytics Users Free

Visual data discovery tools are a relatively new addition to the spectrum of business intelligence solutions. Data collected by the Aberdeen Group, found that employees in organizations that used...