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The Good, The Bad, and the Gorgeous

Some tips, tricks and thoughts on using Google Data Studio Red Pill Analytics recently delivered a solution that exclusively used Google Cloud Platform. Our client, a marketing team at Google, wanted to know how they were engaging with users across several online channels. We used Google Analytics, YouTube Analytics, AdWords, among other sources via BigQuery to […]

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Big Data, Cloud, Data, Data Visualization, Google Cloud Platform

Are You Getting Your Point Across?

We all get by with a little help from our friends. Let us share a tech tip with you and offer you an opportunity to learn more from the Red Pill Analytics team. You spend all of this time and effort putting together an analysis to share with your users. But wait! Are your users able

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Data Visualization, Oracle DV, Red Pill Analytics Tips, Tips

Got Technology, Need Data? Here’s Where to Get It…For Free

The Data Challenge Have you ever wanted to assess or explore a new BI, analytics, data visualization, data science, etc. technology, but struggled to find a data set to use for your assessment and exploration activities? Have you grown tired of analyzing the “typical” datasets–think census, stock market, and employment and inflation rate data–known to be publicly available?

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Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Visualization, General, Tips

Keeping Tabs on Tableau

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tableau has been around for awhile now and is sort of the “name brand” when referring to new cloud and lightweight BI platforms. Given its stature I thought I would download the newest version (Tableau 10), kick the tires, and see what it’s all about. You can download a free trial and test it

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Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Excel, Tableau

Should You Have Domo FOMO?

I’ll address the title of this right at the top, in short, it depends. The long answer, which I will discuss as I go through this article, is it depends on how you intend to use it. If you are a small company or team with fairly simple data needs, and you are using it

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Data Visualization, Excel

How to get BI with Excel

I know it sounds like I am writing about 1980s technology, and I am, but the fact remains that Excel is still a widely used tool in the business world. Besides, what else would you put your data dumps into? Often Excel reports get used for management reporting, which comes with a number of issues.

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Analytics, BICS, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Coding, Data Visualization, Excel, Oracle, Tips, VBA

The Cage Match between OBIEE Answers and Data Visualization

Last week I presented at the BIWA Summit a “Cage Match” between Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Answers and Data Visualization. In full disclosure, these slides were created by Kevin McGinley and I simply was the presenter of these slides. However, I believe that I set the bar high for when Kevin presents these next. 🙂 This

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Data Visualization, Oracle DV, Tips