Home
Portfolio
Company
Careers
Blog
Contact

Darkhorse Analytics | Edmonton, AB

Home
Portfolio
Company
Careers
Blog
Contact
April 9, 2018
Analytics
Daniel Haight
Make or Buy?

Many organizations have begun to recognize the benefit of using analytics to support decision-making. At least in the abstract. But how to get the capability is not so clear. 

Make or Buy?
Daniel Haight
April 9, 2018
Analytics

Make or Buy?

Daniel Haight
April 9, 2018
Analytics
Make or Buy?

Many organizations have begun to recognize the benefit of using analytics to support decision-making. At least in the abstract. But how to get the capability is not so clear. 

Comment
Daniel Haight
December 11, 2017
Popular, Analytics

The Five Faces of the Analytics Dream Team

Daniel Haight
December 11, 2017
Popular, Analytics
The Five Faces of the Analytics Dream Team

Imagine your analytics dream team. Who would you hire, and what would their roles be?

Comment
Joey Cherdarchuk
September 12, 2017
Visualization

Should I Eat This Fish - A Redesign

Joey Cherdarchuk
September 12, 2017
Visualization
Should I Eat This Fish - A Redesign

A few years ago we worked with the Alberta Government on a tool that would make Fish Consumption Advisories more accessible to the general public. And after working its way through the government’s approvals process that tool is finally here.

3 Comments
Daniel Haight
July 6, 2017
Analytics

The Value is in the Data (Wrangling)

Daniel Haight
July 6, 2017
Analytics
The Value is in the Data (Wrangling)

If you aspire to be a data scientist, you’re really aspiring to be a data wrangler. You see, 80% of your working hours will be spent wrangling the data. That’s on average. On some projects, you will spend more than 100% of your “working” hours with your lasso. I hope you enjoy that sort of thing.

4 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
February 7, 2017
Visualization

Fat Zebras

Joey Cherdarchuk
February 7, 2017
Visualization
Fat Zebras

If you've got a large table with lots of rows, you might get fat. We think that's a good thing.

1 Comment
Eugene Chen
December 15, 2016
Visualization

Mapping Data Should Take Seconds (MapInSeconds.com)

Eugene Chen
December 15, 2016
Visualization
Mapping Data Should Take Seconds (MapInSeconds.com)

If you’ve tried to visualize your data with a map, you know how time-consuming it can be.  It shouldn’t take so long or be so difficult, so we built MapInSeconds.com, which takes your data and generates a map - in seconds.

Tagged: mapinseconds.com, tool

42 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
November 23, 2016

Visualization's Twisted Path

Joey Cherdarchuk
November 23, 2016
Visualization's Twisted Path

Visualization is not a straight path from vision to reality. It is full of twists and turns, rabbit trails and road blocks, foul-ups and failures. Let's walk through one visualization's twisted path.

6 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
November 8, 2016
Visualization

Visualizing Distributions

Joey Cherdarchuk
November 8, 2016
Visualization
Visualizing Distributions

Let's have a look at the many different methods for displaying distributions. We'll take one data set and display its distribution 16 different ways.

7 Comments
Daniel Haight
August 26, 2016
Analytics

Own the Adoption

Daniel Haight
August 26, 2016
Analytics
Own the Adoption

How many times has this happened to you: You get to the end of a gruelling analytics project and the decision maker doesn't listen?

6 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
August 19, 2016
Visualization

Data Looks Better Naked: Maps Edition

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 19, 2016
Visualization
Data Looks Better Naked: Maps Edition

In this new installment of our Data Looks Better Naked series, we take on maps. More specifically, the choropleth map.

21 Comments
Daniel Haight
August 5, 2016
Analytics

House of Cards

Daniel Haight
August 5, 2016
Analytics
House of Cards

An analytics project is really three projects: a change management project stacked on top of a software development project stacked on top of a research project. So, how does one prevent the whole thing from collapsing under its own weight?

Comment
Joey Cherdarchuk
July 21, 2015
Visualization

Make the Grade

Joey Cherdarchuk
July 21, 2015
Visualization
Make the Grade

Our entry into the  Apps for Alberta competition takes a look at high school grades across the province.

Maciej Bukczynski
April 14, 2015
Visualization

Radar: More Evil Than Pie?

Maciej Bukczynski
April 14, 2015
Visualization
Radar: More Evil Than Pie?

Have you met the pie chart’s evil cousin: the radar chart. It may not be as ubiquitous as the pie, but it can be more nefarious.

8 Comments
Daniel Haight
March 31, 2015
Analytics

Pluck the Low-Hanging Fruit

Daniel Haight
March 31, 2015
Analytics
Pluck the Low-Hanging Fruit

You’ve assembled a team and they’re ready to transform your organization into a data-driven decision-making juggernaut. But where should they start? How do you coordinate this team so they’ll actually be effective?

2 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
December 22, 2014
Visualization

When Small is More

Joey Cherdarchuk
December 22, 2014
Visualization
When Small is More

Don’t be afraid to make your charts smaller to communicate a bigger, more complete message.

3 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
September 26, 2014
Visualization, Popular

Salvaging the Pie

Joey Cherdarchuk
September 26, 2014
Visualization, Popular
Salvaging the Pie

The next instalment in our Data Looks Better Naked series takes on the dreaded pie chart.

9 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
May 8, 2014
Visualization, Popular, Analytics

Breathing City

Joey Cherdarchuk
May 8, 2014
Visualization, Popular, Analytics
Breathing City

A look at the many many steps involved in creating the Breathing City animation of Manhattan's flow of people at work and at home.

21 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
March 27, 2014
Visualization, Popular

Clear Off the Table

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 27, 2014
Visualization, Popular
Clear Off the Table

The first animation in our Data Looks Better Naked series reworked a bar chart. Now we show you how to improve a data table.

15 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
March 16, 2014
Visualization

The Uniform Distribution

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 16, 2014
Visualization
The Uniform Distribution

How do jersey numbers stack up across the major sports leagues in the 2013-14 season?

2 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
August 20, 2013
Visualization, Popular

Data looks better naked

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 20, 2013
Visualization, Popular
Data looks better naked

Rather than dressing our data up, we should be stripping it down. A look at how to remove to improve.

7 Comments
Older Posts

 

Popular

 
Featured
Make or Buy?
The Five Faces of the Analytics Dream Team
Should I Eat This Fish - A Redesign

Visualizations

Back to Top
1-800-261-1832info@darkhorseanalytics.com