2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Online > Web How-to Article > New England
Awarded to
Sharon Machlis, executive editor, online & data analytics; Barbara Krasnoff, senior reviews editor
Entry details
Free data visualization with Microsoft Power BI: Your step by step guide
Issue date (if applicable): 7/11/2016
Publication name: Computerworld / IDG Enterprise
Publishing company: Computerworld Inc.
Website home page: computerworld.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
Computerworld identifies, unpacks and offers guidance about the most pressing management and technology challenges facing IT and business technology leaders, as well as the latest personal technologies and trends. Computerworld is outspoken and authoritative, and relies on the hard-won insights of the IT users it champions to offer readers behind-the-scenes examples of how organizations implement technology, manage projects and personnel, and adapt to IT change.
Computerworld.com posts dozens of stories by staff reporters, feature writers and bloggers each week, delivering a wide range of breaking news, features, analysis, videos, image galleries, RSS feeds, research and resource materials, as well as premium content for registered "Insider" readers. Our website, updated continually during the business week and when major news breaks after-hours and on weekends, also includes stories from the IDG News Service and several of our sister technology publications. Readers can also follow our stories on Twitter and on social media sites such as Facebook and Google+.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
While almost everyone has heard of Microsoft Excel, fewer people are familiar with another, relatively new Microsoft platform that's not only more powerful than Excel for analyzing data -- but it’s also free.
In this detailed guide, Computerworld’s Sharon Machlis introduces Power BI with a comprehensive text and video tutorial that walks users through an analysis of U.S. on-time flight data. The tutorial starts by showing readers how to download monthly files and combine them to create a data set with more than two million records (larger than Excel could read). It continues with clear, illustrated explanations on how to build visualizations that can answer questions such as "Which airline had the smallest average delay for flights between Boston and New York?" Finally, readers learn how to generate an interactive Web application that can be uploaded and hosted for free on a Microsoft website. By the end of the article, even those completely new to working with data can confidently begin building their own apps.
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Free data visualization with Microsoft Power BI: Your step by step guide
Category
Online > Web How-to Article > New England
Description
Publication name:
Computerworld / IDG Enterprise
Company:
Computerworld Inc.
Winner Status
- National Gold Award
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