Tag: BI
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Joining Tableau: My First Impressions and Journey with a Seattle-Based Analytics Startup Company
Joining Tableau has been an exhilarating step in my career. As a data enthusiast and very early adopter of Tableau, I was excited to join Tableau, a Seattle-based startup company that is coming up with the next level of self-service data analytics software – compared to classic BI software. A New Chapter: Tableau’s Frankfurt Office…
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How to unleash Data Science with an MBA?
My Data Science journey starts at CERN where I finished my master thesis in 2009. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has some questions to answer: like how the universe works and what is it made of. CERN collects nearly unbelievable amounts of data…
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IMF Global Data Explorer
How about some visual takeaways from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook? Recently I prepared two nifty data visualizations with Tableau that I like to share with you. These visualizations allow you to explore plenty of economical data, including IMF staff estimates until 2020. Don’t forget to choose “Units” after switching “Subject” on the right-side bar.…
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Challenges of Big Data Analytics in High-Energy Physics
There are four key issues to overcome if you want to tame Big Data: volume (quantity of data), variety (different forms of data), velocity (how fast the data is generated and processed) and veracity (variation in quality of data). You have to be able to deal with lots and lots, of all kinds of data, moving really…
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CERN: Where Big Bang Theory meets Big Data Analytics
The volume, variety, velocity and veracity of data generated by the LHC experiments at CERN continue to reach unprecedented levels: some 22 petabyte of data this year, after throwing away 99% of what is recorded by the LHC detectors. This phenomenal growth means that not only must we understand Big Data in order to decipher…
