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By Maria Ciampa November 12, 2024

5 Compelling reasons to meet with Sisense at AWS re:Invent

What: Sisense at AWS re:Invent
Date: December 2-6, 2024
Where: Las Vegas, NV
Booth: 225

By Maria Ciampa August 20, 2024

Will AI data analytics tools assist or replace data engineers?

Discover how AI data analytics tools assist data engineers in seven key ways, including automating routine tasks and supercharging data prep and ETL processes.

By Paul Turner and Maria Ciampa August 14, 2024

4 Strategies for success with AI, machine learning, and analytics

Explore top AI machine learning strategies for analytics success. From predictive modeling to explainable AI, unlock key insights for your projects.

By Sisense Team December 12, 2023

Supercharge your SQL Queries for Production Databases

SQL is one of the most powerful data-handling tools around. In SQL Superstar, we give you actionable advice to help you get the most out of this versatile language and create beautiful, effective queries. If you’re running without a data warehouse…

By Sisense Team December 6, 2023

D3 Data Visualization – Take your dashboards to another level

D3 is a powerful tool for visualizing your datasets in a more dynamic format.

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By Sisense Team November 30, 2023

The 6 Functions of a Data Team

If you’ve been paying attention, you probably already understand the business value and the benefits of building a data team at your company. But what functions should they actually perform? In large companies, each of these tasks may be performed…

By Sisense Team November 24, 2023

11 Tips to become a truly data-driven company

Data-driven companies are those that maximize the potential benefits of their data. The data functions at these companies have efficient processes to turn data into action and actions back into data. Becoming data-driven, and learning to translate data into better…

By Sisense Team November 14, 2023

Data Science vs. Data Analytics — What’s the difference?

What Is Data Science? What Is Data Analytics? What Is the Difference? Big data has become a major component in the tech world today thanks to the actionable insights and results businesses can glean. However, the creation of such large…

By Sisense Team November 8, 2023

Charts Vs. Tables – Choosing the right visualization

Making the most of your business intelligence is equivalent parts having the right data and choosing the appropriate visualization to maximize it. The amount of data produced today means that simply reading through line after line of numbers becomes unfeasible…

By Sisense Team November 2, 2023

Getting started with Data Analysis in Python after using SQL

SQL is the dominant language for data analysis because most of the time, the data you’re analyzing is stored in a database. And most analysis involves a lot of filtering, grouping, and counting — actions that SQL makes very easy….

By Sisense Team October 27, 2023

5 Steps to Data-Driven Business Decisions

Step 1: Strategy Step 2: Identify key areas Step 3: Data targeting Step 4: Collecting and analyzing Step 5: Action Items Want to improve your decision-making process? These days, gut instinct is no longer enough if you want to remain…

By Sisense Team October 23, 2023

Latitude and Longitude Distance Calculation Explained

In the real world, latitude and longitude play an important role in several fields and calculations, but one of their most common uses is measuring distances between points. As a data company, we want to see our customers use this…

By Sisense Team October 11, 2023

How to define KPIs for successful Business Intelligence

Realizing that you can only improve what you measure is a good way to think about KPIs. Often companies want to improve different aspects of their business all at once, but can’t put a finger on what will measure their…

By Sisense Team October 7, 2023

6 Questions to ask when preparing data for Analysis

Data preparation is perhaps the most important step in any type of serious data analysis. And while it would be ludicrous to attempt to cover such a broad field of knowledge in one article, we’ve prepared a quick checklist that…

By Sisense Team October 5, 2023

Weighted vs. Unweighted averages

When summarizing statistics across multiple categories, analysts often have to decide between using weighted and unweighted averages. An unweighted average is essentially your familiar method of taking the mean. Let’s say 0% of users logged into my site on Day…