Always leave them wanting more!
–P.T. Barnum
Creator of “The Greatest Show On Earth!®“
Sage advice for the circus and for most presentations!
Compelling Presentations
Creating compelling presentations that are clear and actionable are the lifeblood of successful analyst teams. Often, analys...
This visualization is from our final case study in our new Hands-on Data Visualization with R course.
Using a template created in Lyra and customized in Vega (a D3-based language), we explore the interactions among the top 30 characters in Game of Thrones (data from the books on which the seri...
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
–LEE IACOCCA
Engineer on the original Ford Mustang design team and CEO during Chrysler’s comeback in the 1980’s.
From the Seven C’s of Data Analysis Framework
Maria is a Senior Sales Anal...
I often find myself seeking a concise solution to check if I am running artificial intelligence stock trading algorithms at the right time for various exchanges around the world. Most of the users of our analyses want to see an analysis in their specific local time zone, so our scheduling servers an...
At YakData, we’ve used the D3 data visualization library on several client projects and have been impressed with the nearly infinite set of graphing, charting and mapping possibilities. Unfortunately, we were less impressed with the high learning curve, level of effort and complexity involved in d...
Whether you use R to access online databases in the cloud or want to scrape website data, it’s always better to check if you are online before throwing numerous error and warning messages. I wrote this function to work with no additional R packages required. Also, this function is fast and transpare...
