Tableau hits Power Bi as 'falling short'; Microsoft fires back
Business-analytics vendor Tableau Software moved to stake out its turf now that Microsoft has entered the BI market.
View ArticlePower BI gets robust mapping with ArcGIS
Microsoft free Power BI is slated to get some serious mapping capabilities, as Microsoft yesterday announced ArcGIS for Power BI by Esri is on the way sometime this year.
View ArticleAirbnb open sources data-science-sharing platform
The knowledge-sharing framework, still in beta, is designed to bring the discipline of computer-code sharing to data analysis.
View ArticleTableau to launch visual data-prep software
Tableau is moving into the data-wrangling business, announcing plans for visual data-preparation software code-named Project Maestro.
View ArticleSisense brings its analytics platform to chat bots
Analytics firm Sisense has brought its BI platform to chat bots, allowing customers to ask natural-language questions about their data while in Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger or Telegram.
View ArticleMicrosoft pushes R, SQL Server integration
Microsoft made another R-in-the-enterprise push today, announcing Microsoft R Server 9.0 with a goal of helping companies "operationalize" data science.
View ArticleFirst look: IBM's Watson Analytics comes to the iPad
The Web app has much more power, but the mobile version can be useful for analyzing tweets, for instance.
View ArticleFacebook releases 'Prophet' -- its free forecasting tools -- for Python and R
Prophet is aimed specifically at business problems such as computer infrastructure capacity planning.
View ArticlePower BI to add Premium service; private dashboard is free no more
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a Premium enterprise service for its Power BI data visualization platform.
View ArticleBeginner's guide to R: Get your data into R
Whether it's local or from the Web, there are several ways to get data into R for further work.
View ArticleBeginner's guide to R: Introduction
In part 1 of our hands-on series, we explain why R's a great choice for basic data analysis and visualization work, and how to get started.
View ArticleBeginner's guide to R: Painless data visualization
From no-frills graphics to adding color and labeling your data, here's what you need to know.
View ArticleBeginner's guide to R: Syntax quirks you'll want to know
Why x=3 doesn't always mean what you think it should, about data types and more.
View ArticleTop R language resources to improve your data skills
From books to videos to online tutorials -- most free! -- here are plenty of ideas to burnish your R knowledge.
View Article4 data wrangling tasks in R for advanced beginners
R is mighty, but it can be complex for data tasks. Learn how to get summaries, sort and do other tasks with relative ease. (Now updated with dplyr examples.)
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