3 Situations When Excel Falls Short

3 Situations When Excel Falls Short

Excel is a familiar—some would say ubiquitous—data analysis tool, which we’re all familiar with to some degree. But if you are an Excel power user, you might find yourself struggling to use it to analyze and visualize complex or high-volume data. In short, you might...
Passing Data From TERR Into R In Spotfire

Passing Data From TERR Into R In Spotfire

In a previous post, our interns demonstrated how to perform a simple sentiment analysis on Tweets during the World Cup Match. Recently, we had an interesting request from a client to analyze Tweets in a similar manner. The difference here will be to analyze Tweets...
Stop Using Excel!

Stop Using Excel!

Four Better Ways to Manage Data At the recent Springfield IMA conference, I had an interesting experience. The featured speaker was Mr. Excel. Yes, a man who makes a career of showing people how to use a 30-year-old tool that has little to show for improvement other...