Publications by Jonathan

Wagging the Dog: BI Tools, Not Solutions

If you’re familiar with the expression, or perhaps have seen the eponymous film, you understand the idea of something with far less importance or weight driving a much bigger process. In the film’s case, the expression was used to characterize a completely fabricated war shifting attention away from an actual scandal. For our purposes here, c...

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R and SurveyGizmo API update

I made a public fork of the original RSurveyGizmo package to accommodate the API Secret, as the original package sometimes errored out with authentication issues. The post R and SurveyGizmo API update appeared first on Jonathan Fowler. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: r – Jonathan F...

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Data Warehousing and Data Mining

The relationship between data mining tools and data warehousing systems can be most easily seen in the connector options of popular analytics software packages. For example, the image below right shows the many source options from which to pull data in from warehouse backends in Tableau Desktop. Microsoft Power BI includes similar interface optio...

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