Well-formed Data – Part 2: Concatenation & Extraction

Continuing our series on preparing data for analysis & visualization, we’ve just released the next video on concatenation and extraction.  The ability to break data apart and put it back together in new ways is essential to preparing data.  By storing data at the lowest sensible level, it can be used separately or combined with [...]

Well-formed Data – Part 1: Consistency

Data visualization and analysis are powerful tools for discovering and communicating stories held in your data.  However, before most of today’s data visualization tools can be used effectively, the data must be cleaned, organized and prepared.  Over the next 4 videos, I’ll be discussing how to prepare your data to be visualized.  The first step in [...]