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Data Literacy How To Implement A Successful Data Literacy Training Initiative
12 Sep 2023 5 min read

How To Implement A Successful Data Literacy Training Initiative

The facts are staggering. Organisations that want to stay competitive must equip their staff with data literacy skills.

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Data Literacy Why Organizations Should Embrace Alteryx for Modern Data Engineering
12 Sep 2023 2 min read

Why Organizations Should Embrace Alteryx for Modern Data Engineering

In an era where businesses are rapidly becoming data-driven, tools like Power BI and Tableau have gained prominence for data visualization. Yet, as a recent Kubicle article ‘Why...

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Data Literacy Why do financiers struggle with no code and low code technology adoption?
6 Apr 2023 3 min read

Why do financiers struggle with no code and low code technology adoption?

Low and no-code software is testing the limits of IT handholding. IT departments must continually intervene to clean up messes, while business users may need help managing their...

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Data Literacy Improve Your Financial Analysis and Reporting With 5 Powerful Excel Add-Ins
27 May 2022 10 min read

Improve Your Financial Analysis and Reporting With 5 Powerful Excel Add-Ins

Data analytics technology has changed dramatically over the past few years, but Excel remains the tried-and-tested tool for finance professionals worldwide. It’s robust, highly...

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Data Literacy Why Your Organization Should be Using Alteryx
7 Apr 2022 4 min read

Why Your Organization Should be Using Alteryx

Businesses are becoming increasingly data driven and opting for tools such as Power BI and Tableau for data visualization instead of Excel which has significant volume...

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Data Literacy Excel Function SPOTLIGHT
11 Feb 2022 1 min read

Excel Function SPOTLIGHT

Available in Excel for Microsoft 365 Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac Excel for the web

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Data Literacy Whitepaper: Data Literacy Trends in the Financial Services Sector
12 Jan 2022 1 min read

Whitepaper: Data Literacy Trends in the Financial Services Sector

Read our recently published report on data literacy trends in the Financial Services sector for 2022. Based on an analysis of over 10,000 Kubicle learners from finance companies,...

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Data Literacy Using IDEs, Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook
24 Nov 2021 2 min read

Using IDEs, Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook

Most programmers make use of applications called Integrated Development Environments, or IDEs, that aid the programming process.

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Data Literacy How to do a VLOOKUP in Excel
23 Nov 2021 5 min read

How to do a VLOOKUP in Excel

Using VLOOKUP successfully can feel like a major victory to many – and it should, it’s not one of Excel’s most straightforward functions to grasp; it takes practice to get it...

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Data Literacy The Prevalence of Data & Analytics in Sport
12 Nov 2021 3 min read

The Prevalence of Data & Analytics in Sport

My NBA fantasy league has defined the morning routine – watching highlights and browsing Reddit for half baked insights about the obvious: how statistics in the NBA have changed...

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Data Literacy Data Literacy in the Financial Services Sector
3 Nov 2021 6 min read

Data Literacy in the Financial Services Sector

“The most powerful asset that businesses hold has changed. Data now underpins success in mining both physical assets and digital business opportunities—improving accuracy,...

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Data Literacy The Future of the Management Consultants Tool Stack
27 Oct 2021 5 min read

The Future of the Management Consultants Tool Stack

The age-old technical weapons of choice in Management Consulting still prevail. Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint are where most consultants spend their time. In fact, a first or...

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Data Literacy 4 Steps for Integrating US Census Data with Your Company’s Data
11 Sep 2018 7 min read

4 Steps for Integrating US Census Data with Your Company’s Data

Using public data can help improve the quality of your data analysis. It allows you to fill in any gaps in your data or to create more insights into your company’s data. We’ll...

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Data Literacy 3 Step Guide: Get US Census Data into Power BI
4 Sep 2018 6 min read

3 Step Guide: Get US Census Data into Power BI

Integrating public data into your analysis can provide powerful insights. However this task rarely comes easily, as public data tends to come in an awkward format or a different...

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Data Literacy First Steps in Alteryx: Importing Excel Files
4 Sep 2018 4 min read

First Steps in Alteryx: Importing Excel Files

In a previous post, we gave a general guide on how you can import files into Alteryx. In this post, we’ll look specifically at Excel files.

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Data Literacy How to Make the Most of Public Data For Your Business
22 Aug 2018 6 min read

How to Make the Most of Public Data For Your Business

By now, almost every business around has figured out that data and analytics represent a big opportunity to generate compelling insights into the company, and thereby improve...

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Data Literacy First Steps in Alteyrx: How to Import Your Data
21 Aug 2018 4 min read

First Steps in Alteyrx: How to Import Your Data

A lot of your work with Alteryx will involve using and manipulating a wide variety of data sources. One of the strengths of Alteryx is that you can import data from many different...

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Data Literacy What Is the Difference Between Excel and Power BI?
14 Aug 2018 6 min read

What Is the Difference Between Excel and Power BI?

For many years, Excel has been the most widely used data analysis software for most businesses. However, in recent years, you may have become aware of Power BI, which is another...

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Data Literacy How Do Outer Joins Work in Alteryx?
13 Aug 2018 3 min read

How Do Outer Joins Work in Alteryx?

In a previous post, we saw how the Join tool in Alteryx merges two tables into one. However, maybe you want to combine all the data from one of the input tables with the data in...

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Data Literacy Tableau and Power BI: What’s the Difference?
13 Aug 2018 5 min read

Tableau and Power BI: What’s the Difference?

Tableau and Power BI are probably the two best-known products when it comes to self-service business intelligence and visualization tools. Although there are many similarities...

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Data Literacy How Public Data Can Be Valuable to Your Businesses
7 Aug 2018 5 min read

How Public Data Can Be Valuable to Your Businesses

We all know how important data is becoming to modern businesses. The amount of data floating around in modern companies is such that a wide range of insights can be gained just by...

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Data Literacy How to Combine Multiple Tables Horizontally in Alteryx
7 Aug 2018 3 min read

How to Combine Multiple Tables Horizontally in Alteryx

Joining tables together is a common task in Alteryx. In this post, we’ll discuss how to combine tables horizontally using the Join tool. The Join tool is used to combine tables...

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Data Literacy The Best Publicly Available Data for Business
1 Aug 2018 3 min read

The Best Publicly Available Data for Business

In most countries, increasing quantities of public data are being made available, particularly by public organisations. This data can be useful to many businesses, as it can be...

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Data Literacy How to Combine Multiple Tables Vertically in Alteryx
31 Jul 2018 3 min read

How to Combine Multiple Tables Vertically in Alteryx

One of the most common activities in Alteryx is combining datasets together. In the business world, the data you want to analyse usually comes from more than one source, and...

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Data Literacy What is the Difference Between Alteryx and Tableau?
24 Jul 2018 5 min read

What is the Difference Between Alteryx and Tableau?

Alteryx and Tableau are two of the best known software products in the world of analytics. Both are used in many companies to obtain valuable insights from data. But what role...

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Data Literacy When Designing Dashboards, Less Is More
17 Jul 2018 4 min read

When Designing Dashboards, Less Is More

Over the first four posts in this series, we’ve learned how to select charts, how to lay out a dashboard using those charts, and how to maximize the impact of these charts. In...

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Data Literacy 5 Ways You Can Maximize the Impact of Your Charts
11 Jul 2018 6 min read

5 Ways You Can Maximize the Impact of Your Charts

Over a number of previous posts (here, here and here), we have learned about business dashboards in detail. We have learned how to select the right charts to add to the dashboard,...

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Data Literacy The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of HR Analytics
9 Jul 2018 10 min read

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of HR Analytics

Nowadays, we’re all probably desensitized to being spied on. Social networks store enormous amounts of data on us, generating light and heat online but nothing more. State...

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