Introduction Every year, I have a tradition of listening to the MTV unplugged performance of Nirvana (1993) on Youtube. Last year, a comment on one of the videos really struck a chord with me. It Read more…
What brings Azure Purview to the table for the future of Data Governance?
These days many projects start quite small but can grow very quickly. At the start of a project, the structure of all the sources is still clear. But as the sources get bigger and more Read more…
Contextualizing Visualizations
Introduction Imagine you are walking through a factory and in front of you are 3 machines producing bolts for construction. Above each machine where the bolts come out is a screen showing the bolt defects-per-million-opportunities Read more…
How do we move Data to Wisdom?
People in our profession will probably recognize the following situation: You meet some distant, or not so distant, family and they ask the question: “What is it exactly that you do?”. I often start with Read more…
Time to split: are datetimes bogging down your model?
We’re not breaking up. I just wanted to talk to you about… Why keeping datetime columns whole can hurt Power BI performance Time is a component of most data models. Often at the granularity of Read more…
Storytelling with dashboards
At Algorhythm, training is viewed as an essential part of everyone’s development. We think it’s important to keep our colleagues up to date with new standards, technologies, and best practices about how organizations work with Read more…
BI decision matrix
Over the past years, we have had several trainees at Algorhythm. This is a good opportunity for the students to get to know us better. Miguel Haest’s internship assignment was to compare the strengths and Read more…
Bridging gaps: The value of academic research for data scientists
Data science is a rapidly evolving field. Daily, academics at universities work on the next big algorithm that will help make our lives easier. Large corporations, such as Microsoft and Amazon, have even made in-house Read more…
Happy birthday to our Algorhythm blog
Sharing knowledge is an important value within Algorhythm. The idea of starting a blog community was a logic consequence to get the information into the world. It’s been a year since we launched our first Read more…
Visualizing multicollinearity in Python
Introduction What is multicollinearity? Multicollinearity is when two or more features are correlated with each other. Although correlation between the independent and dependent features is desired, multicollinearity of independent features is less desired in some settings. In Read more…