September 22, 2021

How a Semantic Layer Turns Excel into a Sophisticated BI Platform

Microsoft Excel has been the workhorse analytics tool for generations of business analysts, financial modelers, and data hacks. It delivers the ultimate flexibility to manipulate data, create new metrics with cell calculations, build live visualizations and slice and dice data.…

Posted by: Josh Epstein

June 5, 2020

Excel with Google BigQuery

I hear it all the time. Many enterprises hate Excel because it’s an analytics “free for all” but the business users love it and can’t live without it. No matter what BI tools an enterprise may have, ultimately, that last…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

April 20, 2020

Excelling at Modern Analytics

Having spent the better part of 20 years in data analytics, I consider myself fairly savvy in the world of data transformation, complex financial models, and best practices for data visualization. As someone knee deep in the latest and greatest…

Posted by: Chris Oshiro

February 12, 2019

How to Connect Excel and Google BigQuery

Despite the existence of a plethora of data analytics tools, Microsoft Excel is still the preferred choice for many analysts working with data. With the continued growth of data, as well as migration to the cloud, accessing the data necessary…

Posted by: Dan Schulwolf