Data suggests you should get the COVID-19 vaccine Data for this New Zealand focused blog was collected from various worldwide sources between the 18th and 31st August 2021. A list of sources can be found at the end. NZ is currently vaccinating solely with the...
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...
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...