Data

Business intelligence tools like Power BI and Looker Studio (formerly known as Google Data Studio) help companies visualize and analyze data to gain valuable insights. But which platform should you choose for your organization? Here we compare the pros and cons of Microsoft Power BI and Looker Studio. Overview of Power BI Power BI is a business analytics service developed by Microsoft. It connects to various data sources, applies intelligence to transform and model data, and creates interactive reports and dashboards....

As an R&D engineer, working within one of the largest wafer fabs in Europe, I spend a lot of my time analyzing data and generating reports, in order to make informed decisions about product design and process. It’s essential to use tools that can help analyze data quickly and easily, so I can identify trends and problems and take corrective action. Two popular data analysis tools for engineers like myself are SAS JMP and Microsoft Power BI....

jinsngjung / Pixabay Today is 2nd January and the days are getting longer again. I was thinking about sunrise and sunset times and wondering if I should do some data analysis and plotting of these to visualize how they change over the course of a year. Of course, the first step is to get a suitable data set. You can get a data set of sunrise and sunset times from this page on the US Naval Observatory (USNO) website....

UPDATE: These days it is recommended to use Python3 instead of Python2 Apparently it is tricky to get Python integration working in the KNIME Analytics Platform. If you read the official guide too quickly you can miss some critical information at the bottom of the page. I was getting an error complaining that the google.protobuf library was missing even though I thought that I had everything installed correctly: Library google.protobuf is missing, required minimum version is 2....