Tableau Software Inc., whose mission is to make insights from big data more accessible, today took a big step further with the addition of new natural language processing capabilities. The new feature ...

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A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

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Data analysts have to use Excel and Google Sheets more or less on a daily basis in their work. Although these spreadsheet tools are often overshadowed by programming languages, the ability to analyze, ...