by Visual BI | Apr 29, 2019 | Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Tips and Tricks
Data Visualization as a Tool of Communication Despite the number of articles and books on data visualization, many people are still intimidated by the process of creating and formatting charts. Why can’t we have a precise formula that works? There is only a limited...
by Visual BI | Apr 26, 2019 | Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Tips and Tricks
A most important milestone in building a dashboard is the meeting among all the stakeholders, especially end-users, to discuss and agree on the deliverables. This process is called requirement gathering meeting. At Visual BI, we call these sessions design workshops as...
by Visual BI | Feb 18, 2019 | Business Intelligence
Why Design Thinking? Since the rise of User Experience Design in software development, the practice of “Design Thinking” has become widely applied in every aspect of the business. Design thinking is not a methodology used by only artists (don’t let...
by Jiwon Jeon | Nov 9, 2018 | Data Science
We learned about what collaborative filtering is in our previous blog. Now, let’s build an ALS collaborative filtering recommendation model using the MovieLens dataset. The raw data is stored in Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS), and we need to load them to the Azure...
by Jiwon Jeon | Nov 9, 2018 | Data Science
Let’s continue our discussion on recommender systems. The following figure briefly summarizes branches in recommender systems. In the previous blog, we explored the content-based recommender system. We will look more into collaborative filtering recommender...
by Visual BI | Oct 25, 2018 | Business Intelligence
After looking at Enterprise Data Glue – OData in the Enterprise World, we now look at a common request of how OData can be used to extract data from an ECC system to another target. In this example, we are going to look at how an extractor is enabled for OData...