A few tips on maintainability
Eat This Not That, PowerPivot Edition! Just like normal Excel, PowerPivot requires little or no premeditation – you can just jump right in and build something quite impressive. But if […]
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Using Excel CUBE Functions with PowerPivot
Arriving Here from a Search Engine or via Excel Help? This article below by Dick Moffat, as well as the one by Dany Hoter, is an excellent, detailed example of […]
What Are The Key Pillars Of Data Strategy
Data strategy is the intentional, organization-wide approach for managing, analyzing, and leveraging data to achieve core business objectives.
When AI-Powered Isn’t Plug-and-Play
Everyone says AI will make your life easier. The ads told me I’d never mow again. The future had arrived. It had wheels, sensors, and a smug little blinking light […]
Data Strategist vs. Data Scientist: What’s the Real Difference—And Which One Do You Need?
If a data strategist is the one who plots the treasure map, a data scientist is the one who digs up the gold.
End the Spreadsheet Spiral and See the Full Picture
Outgrowing Excel isn’t the problem. Staying stuck in it is. If your forecasting process involves 12 Excel files, 4 email threads, and a dash of panic, you’re not alone. Spreadsheets […]
Microsoft Fabric For Data Science
Data science is evolving rapidly, propelled by the adoption of cloud analytics and the emergence of platforms like Microsoft Fabric.
Early Risk Detection: See It While It’s Still a Line Item, Not a Crisis
The Real Win Is Spotting Trouble While It’s Still Small Enough to Ignore. Great leaders don’t just react fast, they stay ahead. They spot risks early, when problems are still […]
An Inflection Point in AI? Understanding MCP and Multi-Agent
For a while, you could pretend AI was still a someday problem. Not anymore. Rob Collie and Justin Mannhardt are back, and this time they are tackling Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) and […]
What Is the Difference Between Data Entry and Data Analysis?
When you hear the words data entry and data analysis, you may think they are pretty much the same thing.
Confessions of a Data Gener w/ Sakiko Stickley
Sakiko Stickley joins Raw Data to share a story that is part inspiration, part revelation, and a whole lot of truth-telling. From the first moment she discovered Power Pivot, Sakiko […]
Now You Can: Pivot Faster with Business Agility
Build Business Agility Into Every Process Because when things change, the last thing you want is a system that can’t. When the economy hiccups, most companies reach for the same […]