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Learn how to easily transform your data into engaging, interactive visual reports! Data is no longer the sole domain of tech professionals and scientists. Whether in our personal, business, or community lives, data is rapidly increasing in both importance and sheer volume. The ability to visualize all kinds of data is now within reach for anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Google Data Studio, quickly becoming the most popular free tool in data visualization, offers users a flexible, powerful way to transform private and public data into interactive knowledge that can be easily shared and understood. Hands On With Google Data Studio teaches you how to visualize your data today and produce professional quality results quickly and easily. No previous experience is required to get started right away—all you need is this guide, a Gmail account, and a little curiosity to access and visualize data just like large businesses and organizations. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you identify business trends, turn budget data into a report, assess how your websites or business listings are performing, analyze public data, and much more. Practical examples and expert tips are found throughout the text to help you fully understand and apply your new knowledge to a wide array of real-world scenarios. This engaging, reader-friendly guide will enable you to: * Use Google Data Studio to access various types of data, from your own personal data to public sources * Build your first data set, navigate the Data Studio interface, customize reports, and share your work * Learn the fundamentals of data visualization, personal data accessibility, and open data API's * Harness the power of publicly accessible data services including Google's recently released Data Set Search * Add banners, logos, custom graphics, and color palettes Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizens Survival Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting their data visualization journey, from individuals, consultants, and small business owners to large business and organization managers and leaders.

Apache Hadoop is the most popular platform for big data processing to build powerful analytics solutions. This book shows you how to do just that, with the help of practical examples. You will be well-versed with the analytical capabilities of Hadoop ecosystem with Apache Spark and Apache Flink to perform big data analytics by the end of this book.

Visualforce, in conjunction with Apex, makes it easy to develop sophisticated, custom UIs for Force.com desktop and mobile apps without having to write thousands of lines of code and markup. The \"Dynamic Binding\" feature of Visualforce lets you develop generic Visualforce pages to display information related to the records without necessarily knowing which data fields to show. This is accomplished through a formula-like syntax, which makes it simple to manage even a complex hierarchy of records. \"Visualforce Development Cookbook\" provides solutions for a variety of challenges faced by Salesforce developers and demonstrates how easy it is to build rich, interactive pages using Visualforce. Whether you are looking to make a minor addition to the standard page functionality or override it completely, this book will provide you with the required help throughout. \"Visualforce Development Cookbook\" starts with explaining the simple utilities and builds up to advanced techniques for data visualization and reuse of functionality. This book contains recipes that cover various topics like creating multiple records from a single page, visualizing data as charts, using JavaScript to enhance client-side functionality, building a public website and making data available to a mobile device. \"Visualforce Development Cookbook\" provides lots of practical examples to enhance and extend the Salesforce user interface.

Digital transformation and data projects are not new and yet, for many, they are a challenge. Driving Data Projects is a compelling guide that empowers data teams and professionals to navigate the complexities of data projects, fostering a more data-informed culture within their organizations. With practical insights and step-by-step methodologies, this guide provides a clear path how to drive data projects effectively in any organization, regardless of its sector or maturity level whilst also demonstrating how to overcome the overwhelming feelings of where to start and how to not lose momentum. This book offers the keys to identifying opportunities for driving data projects and how to overcome challenges to drive successful data initiatives. Driving Data Projects is highly practical and provides reflections, worksheets, checklists, activities, and tools making it accessible to students new to driving data projects and culture change. This book is also a must-have guide for data teams and professionals committed to unleashing the transformative power of data in their organizations.

In the world of data science there are myriad tools available to analyze data. This book describes some of the popular software application tools along with the processes for downloading and using them in the most optimum fashion. --

Accelerate your journey to smarter decision making by mastering the fundamentals of data literacy and developing the mindset to work confidently with data Key Features Get a solid grasp of data literacy fundamentals to support your next steps in your careerLearn how to work with data and extract meaningful insights to take the right actionsApply your knowledge to real-world business intelligence projects Book Description Data is more than a mere commodity in our digital world. It is the ebb and flow of our modern existence. Individuals, teams, and enterprises working with data can unlock a new realm of possibilities. And the resultant agility, growth, and inevitable success have one origin—data literacy. This comprehensive guide is written by two data literacy pioneers, each with a thorough footprint within the data and analytics commercial world and lectures at top universities in the US and the Netherlands. Complete with best practices, practical models, and real-world examples, Data Literacy in Practice will help you start making your data work for you by building your understanding of data literacy basics and accelerating your journey to independently uncovering insights. You’ll learn the four-pillar model that underpins all data and analytics and explore concepts such as measuring data quality, setting up a pragmatic data management environment, choosing the right graphs for your readers, and questioning your insights. By the end of the book, you'll be equipped with a combination of skills and mindset as well as with tools and frameworks that will allow you to find insights and meaning within your data for data-informed decision making. What you will learn Start your data literacy journey with simple and actionable stepsApply the four-pillar model for organizations to transform data into insightsDiscover which skills you need to work confidently with dataVisualize data and create compelling visual data storiesMeasure, improve, and leverage your data to meet organizational goalsMaster the process of drawing insights, ask critical questions and action your insightsDiscover the right steps to take when you analyze insights Who this book is for This book is for data analysts, data professionals, and data teams starting or wanting to accelerate their data literacy journey. If you’re looking to develop the skills and mindset you need to work independently with data, as well as a solid knowledge base of the tools and frameworks, you’ll find this book useful.

Reveal the insights behind your company's data with Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BIallows intuitive access to data that can power intelligent business decisions and insightful strategies.The question is, do you have the Power BI skillsto make your organization's numbers spill their secrets? In Microsoft Power BI For Dummies, expertlecturer, consultant, and author Jack Hyman delivers astart-to-finish guideto applying the Power BI platform to your own firm's data. You'll discover how to start exploring your data sources, build data models, visualize your results, and create compelling reportsthat motivate decisive action. * Tacklethe basics of Microsoft Power BI and, when you're done with that, move on to advanced functions like accessing data with DAX and app integrations * Guide your organization's direction and decisions with rock-solid conclusionsbased on real-world data * Impress yourbosses and confidently lead your direct reports withexcitinginsights drawn fromPower BI'suseful visualization tools It's one thing foryourcompany to have data atitsdisposal. It's another thing entirely to know what to do with it. Microsoft Power BI For Dummies is the straightforward blueprintyou need to apply one of the most powerfulbusiness intelligence toolson the markettoyourfirm's existing data.

A four-color journey through a complete Tableau visualization Tableau is a popular data visualization tool that s easy for individual desktop use as well as enterprise. Used by financial analysts, marketers, statisticians, business and sales leadership, and many other job roles to present data visually for easy understanding, it s no surprise that Tableau is an essential tool in our data-driven economy. Visual Analytics with Tableau is a complete journey in Tableau visualization for a non-technical business user. You can start from zero, connect your first data, and get right into creating and publishing awesome visualizations and insightful dashboards. Learn the different types of charts you can create Use aggregation, calculated fields, and parameters Create insightful maps Share interactive dashboards Geared toward beginners looking to get their feet wet with Tableau, this book makes it easy and approachable to get started right away.