Jen Stirrup – författare

Advance your Power BI skills by adding AI to your repertoire at a practice level. With this practical book, business-oriented software engineers and developers will learn the terminologies, practices, and strategy necessary to successfully incorporate AI into your business intelligence estate. Jen Stirrup, CEO of AI and BI leadership consultancy Data Relish, and Thomas Weinandy, research economist at Upside, show you how to use data already available to your organization.Springboarding from the skills that you already possess, this book adds AI to your organization's technical capability and expertise with Microsoft Power BI. By using your conceptual knowledge of BI, you'll learn how to choose the right model for your AI work and identify its value and validity.Use Power BI to build a good data model for AIDemystify the AI terminology that you need to knowIdentify AI project roles, responsibilities, and teams for AIUse AI models, including supervised machine learning techniquesDevelop and train models in Azure ML for consumption in Power BIImprove your business AI maturity level with Power BIUse the AI feedback loop to help you get started with the next project

Leverage the power of advanced analytics and predictive modeling in Tableau using the statistical powers of RAbout This Book• A comprehensive guide that will bring out the creativity in you to visualize the results of complex calculations using Tableau and R• Combine Tableau analytics and visualization with the power of R using this step-by-step guide• Wondering how R can be used with Tableau? This book is your one-stop solution.Who This Book Is ForThis book will appeal to Tableau users who want to go beyond the Tableau interface and deploy the full potential of Tableau, by using R to perform advanced analytics with Tableau.A basic familiarity with R is useful but not compulsory, as the book will start off with concrete examples of R and will move quickly into more advanced spheres of analytics using online data sources to support hands-on learning. Those R developers who want to integrate R in Tableau will also benefit from this book.What You Will Learn• Integrate Tableau's analytics with the industry-standard, statistical prowess of R.• Make R function calls in Tableau, and visualize R functions with Tableau using RServe.• Use the CRISP-DM methodology to create a roadmap for analytics investigations.• Implement various supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms in R to return values to Tableau.• Make quick, cogent, and data-driven decisions for your business using advanced analytical techniques such as forecasting, predictions, association rules, clustering, classification, and other advanced Tableau/R calculated field functions.In DetailTableau and R offer accessible analytics by allowing a combination of easy-to-use data visualization along with industry-standard, robust statistical computation.Moving from data visualization into deeper, more advanced analytics? This book will intensify data skills for data viz-savvy users who want to move into analytics and data science in order to enhance their businesses by harnessing the analytical power of R and the stunning visualization capabilities of Tableau. Readers will come across a wide range of machine learning algorithms and learn how descriptive, prescriptive, predictive, and visually appealing analytical solutions can be designed with R and Tableau. In order to maximize learning, hands-on examples will ease the transition from being a data-savvy user to a data analyst using sound statistical tools to perform advanced analytics.By the end of this book, you will get to grips with advanced calculations in R and Tableau for analytics and prediction with the help of use cases and hands-on examples.Style and approachTableau (uniquely) offers excellent visualization combined with advanced analytics; R is at the pinnacle of statistical computational languages. When you want to move from one view of data to another, backed up by complex computations, the combination of R and Tableau makes the perfect solution. This example-rich guide will teach you how to combine these two to perform advanced analytics by integrating Tableau with R and create beautiful data visualizations.

Illustrate your data in a more interactive way by implementing data visualization principles and creating visual stories using TableauAbout This Book* Use data visualization principles to help you to design dashboards that enlighten and support business decisions* Integrate your data to provide mashed-up dashboards* Connect to various data sources and understand what data is appropriate for Tableau Public* Understand chart types and when to use specific chart types with different types of dataWho This Book Is ForData scientists who have just started using Tableau and want to build on the skills using practical examples. Familiarity with previous versions of Tableau will be helpful, but not necessary.What You Will Learn* Customize your designs to meet the needs of your business using Tableau* Use Tableau to prototype, develop, and deploy the final dashboard* Create filled maps and use any shape file* Discover features of Tableau Public, from basic to advanced* Build geographic maps to bring context to data* Create filters and actions to allow greater interactivity to Tableau Public visualizations and dashboards* Publish and embed Tableau visualizations and dashboards in articlesIn DetailWith increasing interest for data visualization in the media, businesses are looking to create effective dashboards that engage as well as communicate the truth of data. Tableau makes data accessible to everyone, and is a great way of sharing enterprise dashboards across the business. Tableau is a revolutionary toolkit that lets you simply and effectively create high-quality data visualizations.This course starts with making you familiar with its features and enable you to develop and enhance your dashboard skills, starting with an overview of what dashboard is, followed by how you can collect data using various mathematical formulas. Next, you'll learn to filter and group data, as well as how to use various functions to present the data in an appealing and accurate way.In the first module, you will learn how to use the key advanced string functions to play with data and images. You will be walked through the various features of Tableau including dual axes, scatterplot matrices, heat maps, and sizing.In the second module, you'll start with getting your data into Tableau, move onto generating progressively complex graphics, and end with the finishing touches and packaging your work for distribution. This module is filled with practical examples to help you create filled maps, use custom markers, add slider selectors, and create dashboards. You will learn how to manipulate data in various ways by applying various filters, logic, and calculating various aggregate measures. Finally, in the third module, you learn about Tableau Public using which allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. In this module, the readers can quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization, creation knowledge, and quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles.The course provides a great overview for beginner to intermediate Tableau users, and covers the creation of data visualizations of varying complexities.Style and approachThe approach will be a combined perspective, wherein we start by performing some basic recipes and move on to some advanced ones. Finally, we perform some advanced analytics and create appealing and insightful data stories using Tableau Public in a step-by-step manner.