In today's world, data is the new oil. Companies, irrespective of their size and domain, are collecting data at an unprecedented pace. The primary challenge for most organizations is not the availability of data but the ability to make sense…
Category: Data Analytics
Connect to Azure DevOps with Power BI Connectors to create rich and interactive dashboards
Power BI connectors allow you to connect to your Azure DevOps Project and visualize the Work Items data in your reports. This helps you create rich and insightful reports that can make tracking and decision making much easier. The powerful…
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Enabling the Analytics View on Azure DevOps for Power BI Connection
Azure DevOps Analytics allows you to connect and get the Azure DevOps Work Items data on Power BI report based on filter criteria provided, very easily. It's available as a Preview Feature in Azure DevOps. To enable the Analytics view and…
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Making Power BI Reports Horizontally and Vertically Scrollable
While creating Power BI reports, there are scenarios where you are required to create single page reports with lots of visuals. To do the same, people increases the page size but it causes all the visual tightly pack inside the…
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Creating Data Lake in Azure
In my previous blog I had given an introduction to Azure Data Lake and its offerings. In this blog I am going to show how to create a data lake in Azure using the Azure portal. To create a Data…
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store: an introduction
What is Data Lake? A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its original format to apply analytics and run big data analysis. Data lake handles the three Vs of big data (Volume,…
Performance improvement of map reduce through new Hadoop block placement algorithm
HDFS estimates the network bandwidth between two nodes by their distance. The distance from a node to its parent node is assumed to be one. A shorter distance between two nodes means that the greater bandwidth they can utilize to…
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InterQuartile Range (IQR)
The interquartile range of an observation variable is the difference of its upper and lower quartiles. It is a measure of how far apart the middle portion of data spreads in value. When a data set has outliers or extreme…
Common Statistical Terminology with Applications
The lack of communication between statisticians and the managers is the major roadblock for using statistics. Below are some statistical terminology to ease a precise communication Population: A population is any entire collection of people, animals, plants or things on which…
Relevance of decision-based thinking in statistical analysis
We can break up any statistical problem into three steps: Data collection and Sampling. Data analysis. Decision making. It is well understood that step 1 typically requires some thought of steps 2 and 3. It is only when you have…
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