September 2018 Telling Your Data Story in Seconds: Create the Right Dashboard Telling your data story in seconds takes art, science, experience, trial, and error. In this series, we’ve looked at many facets of data [...]
Telling your data story in seconds takes art, science, experience, trial, and error. In this series, we’ve looked at many facets of data stories including introduction to dashboards, how to use color, chart types and formatting, experimenting with dashboards, [...]
August 2018 Tableau Conference Tableau Conference provides a rich and fun opportunity for learning Tableau and networking with peers. Join DataSelf for their Happy Hour Event on Tuesday, Oct 23 6 pm.We will announce the location [...]
Data security is a growing concern among mid-sized organizations. At the same time, complex VPN procedures make it almost impossible for users to easily and securely access their data over the internet. Multi-factor authentication (MFA or 2FA) has proven to be a solid way to solve [...]
When you’re considering where to place information on a dashboard, always remember that the key to layout is location, location, location. When you’re designing a dashboard, the top left quadrant as well as the center quadrant are the most [...]
When you’re building dashboards, you should use the right visualizations for the job. The chart you should use depends on the story you’re trying to tell. A chart that works great for certain purposes can actually cause confusion in other [...]
Newly-released product has wide functionality and versatility Businesses need to sort through scores of data in a short amount of time, and dashboards are often what they use to do it. Everything has to be right at the fingertips, user-friendly [...]
Roman poet, Ovid, once said, “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” Through persistence and constant change, we’ve come a long way in the development of DataSelf’s dashboards. The key to this development always ties back [...]
Among ERP systems, Acumatica provides one of the most empowering reporting platforms. It works great for many organizations. On the other hand, organizations looking for enterprise data warehousing and analytics will find that DataSelf Analytics takes Acumatica reporting up a [...]
360-degree Business View: Clear and Compelling A famous mathematician, John Tukey, once said, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” In the business intelligence world, we call them [...]