Sisense brings its analytics platform to chat bots
Analytics firm Sisense has brought its BI platform to chat bots, allowing customers to ask natural-language questions about their data while in Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger or Telegram.
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Tableau to launch visual data-prep software
Tableau is moving into the data-wrangling business, announcing plans for visual data-preparation software code-named Project Maestro.
Airbnb open sources data-science-sharing platform
The knowledge-sharing framework, still in beta, is designed to bring the discipline of computer-code sharing to data analysis.
Power BI gets robust mapping with ArcGIS
Microsoft free Power BI is slated to get some serious mapping capabilities, as Microsoft yesterday announced ArcGIS for Power BI by Esri is on the way sometime this year.
Tableau hits Power Bi as 'falling short'; Microsoft fires back
Business-analytics vendor Tableau Software moved to stake out its turf now that Microsoft has entered the BI market.
Tableau 10 to feature data mashups, more IT management tools
Tableau Software is expected to release the next major upgrade of its popular data visualization software, Tableau 10, within a couple of weeks.
Free data visualization with Microsoft Power BI: Your step-by-step guide
This step-by-step guide, including video, shows you how to analyze a file with more than two million records of U.S. airline flight delays using Microsoft's free Power BI platform.
IBM joins R Consortium
IBM will back efforts to create infrastructure and best practices for the R community, as well as promote use of the language.
11 Excel tips for power users
Tables can be very important tools for data display. We offer 11 tips and tricks to help Excel users make tables more effective, reshape data, easily look up data and more.
Live updates from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit
See the latest news from Microsoft's first Excel and Power BI user conference
Microsoft Visual Studio adds R support
The release includes an R editor, code auto-completion, debugging, built-in GitHub support and other features.
Create maps in R in 10 (fairly) easy steps
Sure you can use this technique for election maps — but it’s also handy for sales figures, mobile data coverage and many other types of data.
How to automatically send an 'I'm busy!' text from your Android phone
Want to keep meetings uninterrupted while still responding to texts? If you've got an Android phone, you can use the Tasker and Trigger apps to send automatic responses. Here's how.
How Verizon analyzes security-breach data with R
Verizon researchers receive incident data from contributing organizations, which means numerous categories also have subcategories. Importing and analyzing all that with Excel was problematic.
Esri to unveil mapping tools in R
Esri is set to announce an open-source software bridge that makes it faster and easier to move mapping data between ArcGIS and R. The aim is to help R users tap into an organization's GIS data housed within ArcGIS, a popular platform for high-powered geo-analysis, without the need to generate intermediate files. However, the code will also work to pull in any vector or tabular data supported by ArcGIS -- including but not limited to Shapefiles -- whether or not that data is stored within ArcGIS.