How to enable Javascript

Blogs

Blogs on functionality & techniques.

TOPICS MEMBERS

Join this category to participate in conversations and receive notifications when new posts are added.

JOIN

Implementing row level security on any database
Row-level or ‘Member-level’ security is a fundamental requirement in most analytic projects controlling which data items different users can view and analyze,…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 4 mths ago
- 36
- Blogs
Time Intelligence: How date lists and ranges accelerate insights
This is the fifth blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. In my previous blogs, I demonstrated how Pyramid provides automatic date parameters to interrogate…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 28
- Blogs
Time intelligence: Custom calculations for greater perspective
This is the fourth blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. My previous posts on time-intelligence covered Pyramid’s powerful and automatic date-time calculation…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 36
- Blogs
Time intelligence: Date-time calculations made simple
This is the third blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. As covered in my previous blogs on time-intelligence, adding date-time groupings into your data makes the…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 31
- Blogs
Time intelligence: Date-time groupings for better visibility
This is the second blog in the series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence into analytics. In my previous blog post , I introduced the concept of grouping amounts in data periods by adding date…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 34
- Blogs
Time intelligence: A critical element in all analytic projects
This is the first blog in a series on how Pyramid brings time intelligence to analytics. The two core challenges Date-time groupings and “buckets” Central to most analytic systems is the requirement…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 28
- Blogs
Calculating differences without code
In part 3 of my blog series on contextual calculations (see part one and part two ), I cover the powerful ability to calculate differences between current and previous row values for a metric and…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 23
- Blogs
Pareto Analysis: Using the 80/20 Rule
In this second post on my three-part series on contextual calculations, I examine how Pyramid can quickly create business calculations like Pareto with just a few clicks.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 31
- 1
- Blogs
Stop Writing Code: Running Totals Made Easy
In this part 1 of my blog series on contextual calculations, I explore running totals in Pyramid. Running or cumulative totals allow business users to see how different metrics add up from the first…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 29
- 1
- Blogs
Amplify your feedback: Pervasive Collaboration with Pyramid
In part 2 of my blog series on analytic collaboration , I cover the powerful ability to comment and annotate data models without specific reports or dashboards.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 5 mths ago
- 6
- Blogs
Actionable data insights in minutes—not hours
How to share data with colleagues with your comments on specific data Effective collaboration by multiple stakeholders is very difficult to achieve when all members utilize a desktop version for…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 20
- Blogs
Learn and predict with Python and Pyramid
Today, more businesses are using machine learning (ML) to perform business predictions. They rely heavily on their small team of data scientists to drive these initiatives.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 17
- 1
- Blogs
Forecasting with Python and Pyramid
Forecasting is an indispensable requirement for any modern organization looking to gain a competitive edge. To do it well, today’s companies need the flexibility to adjust algorithms and define…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 21
- Blogs
Fine tune your forecasts with advanced controls
In a previous blog , I discussed Pyramid’s unique forecasting capabilities, which give users the ability to choose from among eight algorithms to produce forecasts within existing reports and…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 20
- Blogs
Comprehensive forecasting with Pyramid
Forecasting is a machine learning technique that uses historical data as inputs to determine expected future trends. Forecasting forms the basis for developing business strategies that include…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 20
- Blogs
Data-driven dynamic tooltips that add even more context to Pyramid dashboards and reports
In analytics and BI applications, a tooltip can be an invaluable mechanism to display informational text when hovering a mouse cursor over a graphical item on a screen, dashboard, or report.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 34
- 3
- Blogs
How to deploy enterprise-grade “Virtual” Python environments using Pyramid
Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages, used ubiquitously for machine learning and AI projects, with a plethora of open source free programs and projects added daily.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 14
- 1
- Blogs
Data driven messaging to tell a better analytic story
Data-driven text, like data-driven infographics, can help users better learn and understand new information. Data-driven text and messages can communicate analytical insights more effectively and…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 18
- Blogs
First-class Python integration in Pyramid
Python has rapidly become developers’ top choice for machine learning and deep learning projects. Machine learning allows users to feed massive amounts of data into a computer algorithm to get…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 33
- Blogs
How to deliver outstanding analytic performance and scalability on Exasol
Exasol is a scalable in-memory analytical database that can be run across multiple nodes. It provides an analytical solution for large databases that need to operate from memory.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 6 mths ago
- 6
- Blogs
“Guided” Analytics using Pyramid
Use Guided Actions to create customized navigation elements “Guided actions” are a convenient and effective means of extending the classic flow of analytics.…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 7 mths ago
- 22
- Blogs
How to build an “analytics lake” using Cross Model Mapping
Analysts building dashboards reach an impasse when attempting to combine visualizations from different data models (for example, a sales analysis from an SAP-based data model and marketing KPIs from…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 7 mths ago
- 28
- 2
- Blogs
2020.10 Feature Focus: Content Migration Tools
2020.10 is the latest release from Pyramid Analytics. It extends the functionality introduced in our major 2020 release. This is one in a series of posts that highlights some of the major new…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 7 mths ago
- 35
- Blogs
How to build data-driven infographics that tell a better story
Data-driven infographics can be a highly effective way to help users learn new information. The more graphically intuitive an analysis, the quicker and easier it is for users to understand and gain…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 7 mths ago
- 27
- 1
- Blogs
Smart report bursting with triggers and repeaters
As described in my previous blog post , bursting static analytic reports to recipients is still a very common “real-world” requirement—and it’s still a headache for many BI developers and…
- David GordonPyramid Employee
- David_Gordon
- 7 mths ago
- 25
- Blogs

1 2 3 4 Next

Back to top rss

Blogs on functionality & techniques.

Members

View members

Categories

Tags

Recent Tweets

Follow @PyramidAnalytic