Preface

Business intelligence is the process of delivering actionable business decisions from analytical manipulation and presentation of data within the confines of a business environment. Business intelligence can be delivered using many different tools, including some that were not even originally intended to be used for BI. This book will focus on building a separate BI application in each chapter using a different BI tool. Some of these tools require the use of open source software such as D3.js (JavaScript), R, and Python. Others require the use of popular data discovery desktop tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and QlikSense. 

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Practical Business Intelligence, serves as the overall ...

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