A common request is to apply conditional formatting on entire rows based on a value in a given column. Currently, with Sisense for Cloud Data Teams charts, you can only conditionally format columns. Python charts give us much more customizability aro...
SQL Alerts are very handy to keep track of any critical metrics. Oftentimes it makes most sense to do a relative comparison of your data. For instance, "alert me if my metric dropped between yesterday and today." The below SQL code is an example of h...
MySQL aficionados have likely leveraged its ability to declare variables. Unfortunately, this capability isn't supported by all flavors of SQL. For such situations, we can still achieve a similar result by creating a CTE of variables (for more inform...
Plotly is great for its interactivity on visualizations! With choropleth charts we can add a slider to the bottom of the chart to see how data changes over time on a map. The end user can drag the slider across the bottom to see the colors on the hea...
Wanted to alter the thickness of the lines in your series, add markers to your lines, and make them dashed or dotted? The plot.ly library support on Sisense for Cloud Data Teams' Python/R integration allows you to tailor these parameters to your hear...
Aggregating data by various periods of time is made easy with Sisense for Cloud Data Teams' built-in date aggregation filter. Sometimes, however, you may wish to group your data by different periods of time. In this post, we'll look at how to create ...
More often than not, you'll need data from multiple different tables to create the perfect chart! There are many ways to do this but the most common way in SQL would be to use Joins! There are four basic types of Joins: inner, left, right and full. S...
Coming from the world of spreadsheets, you may have defined a set of values recursively with ease, referencing the previous value plus another variable to calculate a new value. Something like this:In the above screenshot, the result column is calcul...
Color is an extremely useful visualization tool. On a line chart, a color gradient can be used to emphasize the highs and lows. Using the Python / R integration in Sisense for Cloud Data Teams, we can definitely achieve this look. Here's the SQ...
However, if we seek to further customize the look of a bullet chart, the R/Python integration comes in very handy! The above image is a bullet chart created using matplotlib, and allows quick interpretation of how well a business is tracking tow...
Radar charts are an effective way to quickly grasp a profile of an individual item. You may have seen them before on video games or personality tests. Some other great use cases are:Different attributes to mark the health of a particular customer acc...
Ultimately, the most effective way to show upcoming deadlines is to display a calendar. We can easily build this out using Sisense for Cloud Data Teams' Python integration (Python code below!)The Python script below builds a function with the followi...
While some users like showing Gantt charts that allow overlapping dates, many would prefer a visual that clearly shows individual work streams, especially in organizations where members are focused on one task at a given time. The input to t...
MotivationA frequent business question often posted by Sales teams is "Where are our customers currently in terms of contract adherence?" This helps inform next steps and conversations for an account. With Python's matplotlib, we can make custom obje...
Python pandas offers a few different options to deal with null values. Based on your dataset, there will likely be a preferred method to account for null values that 1. accurately represents your data and 2. preserves a decent sample size for rigoro...
Choropleths are fancy names for maps with heatmaps, probably because no one wants to say heatmap maps and feel redundant. In R there are packages that make Choropleth objects. choroplethr holds the shape files, create a join of your data frame, and ...
Row counts looking off or data not looking quite right after a join? Well, you could possibly be doing a many-to-many join if the columns in your join conditions aren't distinct! Let's take the following example. Say you have this table, t1. ...
What are Nulls? The null value can be confusing--does it represent a zero, an empty space, a blank placeholder? In SQL, null represents an “unknown” type or the absence of a value, and the use case and queries involving nulls are often unique. Fo...
Now, on to the second part of our journey with the NVL/Coalesce Expression!Coalesce Expression & Return TypesWhen a Coalesce/NVL expression is applied, all inputs/arguments should be the same datatype, as the Coalesce function will return the first n...
Window Functions are a great way to analyze your data in a different way! Similar to other calculation statements in SQL, window functions allow you to do a calculation across a set of rows or columns. The difference is with window functions the dat...
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