Category: Business Intelligence

You probably thought that the chapter on binary number systems in your Intro to Computer Science textbook would never have to be opened again, especially now that you’re a report writer or a data analyst and generally don’t get too close to the silicon. SQL Server DBAs bump into binary numbers from time to time […]

Productive Microsoft Excel Add-Ins There are many Microsoft Excel Add-Ins available for Free that can make you more productive. This article will show you how to find and install them on your local copy of Microsoft Excel. You can also install them in you Office365 copy of Excel as well. What is an Excel Add-In? […]

Choosing a machine learning (ML) platform can be a cause of considerable stress. It’s a major commitment you will have to live with for years and an unwise decision might even affect your job prospects. Fortunately, asking yourself a few fundamental questions can simply the decision considerably. Are you primarily a Windows Shop? In recent […]

When I first evaluated Power BI a few years ago, the thing that impressed me most was that, unlike Sharepoint Power View, a developer could create new visualizations and integrate them into PBI. Some time later, Microsoft greatly expanded the ability of Power BI to include sophisticated graphs by adding to Power BI the ability […]

APIs for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Almost paradoxically, software development tends to become easier the more advanced and sophisticated tasks become. In the recent past, AI development was a test not only of programming chops but also of the developer’s understanding of sophisticated algorithms. However, the explosion of interest in artificial intelligence in recent […]