Designing Visualization

The old expression goes: “A picture tells a thousand words”. Never has this been truer than today, as with the increasing loads of data available to us we collect more and more from an ever increasing range of sources. It’s important to be able to present and read this information in a clear and easy manner. Whether you’re keeping it in-house or presenting to investors or partners, do yourself and all that data you’ve worked so hard to collect a favour, and use great data visualisation. I can’t overstate the importance of easy-to-understand visualisation systems, but if your reader or viewer can’t understand what’s in front of them, you’ve lost them, and possibly...

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Connecting to a Heroku Postgres database

Heroku launched what they call the “SQL database service for developers”.  It relieves the burden of database management by providing a set of features and tools that save a lot of time and effort.  These Heroku Postgres databases can accept outside connections so you are able to connect them to the business intelligence tool of your choice. Let me show you how you can quickly connect a business intelligence tool to a Database. On your Heroku Dashboard choose “Databases” Then choose the Database you want.  Click to get the connection details. Now, we have to configure this database in a business intelligence tool. I’ll show you how to do it in Viur. Go to the...

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Data Analysis with CSV

This week we introduced a new datasource connector for *CSV *and other text files.  CSV files are the simplest way to share data between applications when there is no API available. Many companies rely on CSV files in their day-to-day workflow, so we took our time to make sure we could give a good user experience on the import and export of text files. As of today you can upload CSV files and create a database with these files, establish relationships between them and perform data analysis over them, using our Widget Creator with Drag&Drop or using SQL queries. Then you can save your work in charts, metrics or tables and put them in one of your...

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