Google Analytics I have been using Google Analytics for a while now mostly to look at the traffic on our site. Why I have been doing this is for a few reasons one of which is just to keep the team up-to-date with our top blogs. Why I do this and why it is important...
We've been BEAM*ing for over 7 years now, and really believe it's a solid way to gather business requirements when building Agile data warehouses. Here's why. What is BEAM✲? BEAM✲ stands for Business Event Analysis & Modelling, and it’s a methodology for...
2020 has been a big year for the world, so you can be excused if you missed out on what is new and hot in Qlik Sense! As always Qlik are bringing out new features, functionality, and bug fixes. In this blog I will try and summarise the new features for this year’s...
The OptimalBI team loves open source and is also mad about data. Alison wrote a blog on Open source datasets already, and because there's more options out there, I thought I would give you some more places to get open data from for your various data needs. I have...
When you ventured out to the supermarket during lockdown, I bet you noticed waaaay less traffic on the roads. I live in the Wellington CBD, and it was really weird walking around with no people, no traffic for weeks. It got me wondering about the data; Thankfully...
Importing data At OptimalBI we love to do cool sh!t with data. In my role in data analytics, I like to investigate new data presentation software and had the opportunity to use Amazon QuickSight to see what its data presentation capability was like. What is Amazon...