The SMB Analytics Wire – October 2018
October 2018 Why Your Report Performance Is Poor There are things worth waiting for, but the loading time of a report isn’t one of them! What is too long as far as report load times? [...]
Oct 31, 2018
Oct 30, 2018
Meet BI Ninja, Zack Van Valkenburg
DataSelf is thrilled to announce the newest team member, Zack Van Valkenburg. Zack is a BI Ninja providing customer support, training, and project management to customers. He designs out of the box dashboards and helps with marketing too. According to Zack, [...]
Oct 30, 2018
Why Your Report Performance Is Poor
There are a lot of things worth waiting for, but the loading time of a report isn’t one of them! One of the most common complaints about reporting tools is the amount of time it takes to refresh reports. People [...]
Sep 28, 2018
The SMB Analytics Wire – Septmber 2018
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 [...]
Sep 19, 2018
Telling Your Data Story in Seconds, part 7: 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 stories including introduction to dashboards, how to use color, chart types and formatting, experimenting with dashboards, [...]
Sep 4, 2018
The SMB Analytics Wire – August 2018
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 [...]
Aug 29, 2018
MFA: Multi-Factor Authentication in DataSelf Analytics
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 [...]
Aug 6, 2018
Telling Your Data Story in Seconds, part 6: Layout Is All About Location
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 [...]
Aug 2, 2018
Telling Your Data Story in Seconds, part 5: Visualizations to Avoid
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 [...]
Jul 18, 2018
DataSelf’s Dashboard 2.0 Revolutionizes Data Analysis
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 [...]