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Custom SQL with Tableau? No Problems

Using custom SQL for your Tableau workbooks is usually a really bad idea. Here's how using Holistics with Tableau makes this a non-problem.

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How Data Analytics Helps MyanLearn’s Operations: Holistics Data Platform (Guest Post)

As we are still a very small startup, we do not have a dedicated data team but we want to democratize data access. Holistics plays a big role in our company by providing visualization and reporting features via connecting with our database.

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Make Tableau work better for you with Holistics

Tableau is a great data visualization tool to help data teams provide senior executives with summarized data. However, there is typically lots …

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dbdiagram.io Many to Many Relationship and Diagram Generator SQL Script

In this post, we will be sharing with you two tips to make dbdiagram.io work better for you How to define …

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Google Data Studio: Pricing & In-depth Reviews

Google Data Studio (GDS) is among the popular BI tools in the market developed by Google. In this post, we're going to do a high-level review and analysis of Google Data Studio, what it does, what it excels at and who or what use cases it would suit best.

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Optimizing Embedded Analytics Dashboard Performance by Pre-transforming Data

Your embedded analytics dashboard in Holistics takes a long time to load, thus impacting your customers' experience. This post shows you how to optimize the performance of embedded dashboard by preaggregating the data.

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Spreadsheets or Business Intelligence? Time to move on from Microsoft Office to Business Intelligence tools.

In this digital age, surely you don't want to enter a gunfight carrying only a knife? It is time to consider moving on from Microsoft Office to Business Intelligence tools.

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How Planogram and Share of Shelf (SOS) Reports Maximise Revenue for Retail and FMCG Companies

Planogram and Share of Shelf/Space (SOS) reports are key field execution reports that are important concerns for decision makers to carry out the marketing strategy. In this article, we will explain what Planogram and SOS reports are.

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Looker Data Analytics Pricing and Product Review

Looker is unique among the popular business intelligence (BI) tools for its innovative approach to data modeling and exploration. In this post we're going to do a high-level review and analysis of Looker, what it does, and what it strengths and weaknesses are.

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4 Case Study Questions for Interviewing Data Analysts at a Startup

A good data analyst is one who has an absolute passion for data, he/she has a strong understanding of the business/product you are running, and will be always seeking meaningful insights to help the team make better decisions.