This weekend I spent some time researching how to leverage Azure’s Stream Analytics engine and testing out the connection to Power BI in order to create a dashboard with a near real-time data feed. There are many different business scenarios where real-time data provides valuable insight and can help a company adjust to changes more […]
Month: August 2016
Weather Analysis Follow Up: Parsing through NOAA’s Data
Since my last Power BI dashboard on weather analysis in the U.S., I’ve had a few requests and questions around the data I used to build the dashboard and how I transformed it into a CSV file. In this post I’ll provide a step by step walkthrough of the process I used, along with a copy […]
Does weather affect your business?
A few years back I got to work on a project for a client that was interested in relating weather data (rain precipitation, temperature, cloudiness, etc.) to their sales metrics in order to validate an assumption that the weather had an impact on how their sales performed in different parts of the country. During management meetings, […]