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04/04/2022

I built a visual resume a few years ago in Tableau, it was good, but most people aren't going to use interactivity.

So, this time I built an by hand. About 6 hours from start to finish. Of course, most people's resumes would take less than half that time!

Full-size here: https://yakdata.com/visual-resume/

03/21/2022

Achieve Marketing Dashboard Nirvana — 4 Keys to Success

https://yakdata.com/marketing-dashboard-nirvana-4-keys-to-success/

Practical tips for quickly building & maintaining marketing dashboards. Well-designed marketing dashboards will empower the business to take action dynamically.

What is a dashboard? It’s simple really. In the words of one of the leading educators about marketing dashboards, a dashboard is a… “A visual display of the most important information needed to understand and manage one or more areas of an organization which fits on a single computer screen so...

03/21/2022

Best way to upgrade to R 4.1.3 with RStudio Desktop on Mac, Windows, or Linux? https://yakdata.com/best-way-to-upgrade-to-r-4-1-3-with-rstudio-desktop/ The intelligent, portable, reproducible way to develop R programs, apps & RMarkdown docs on your desktop. Rocker project!

You know that R 4.1.3 is out but don’t want to disrupt your current setup? Want to have multiple R versions with compartmentalized projects and libraries on your computer? Teaching people how to use R and need the entire class to all be on the same, easy-to-install system complete with R 4.1.3, RS...

03/10/2022

Hey fans. Here is a blast from the past! Historic returns from the earliest days of Tableau Public as a music video. At the Tableau Customer Conference opening in 2011. CEO Christian Chabot ordered the video and music.

Hi Tableau fans. Here is a blast from the past! 🕶️ Watch it now From the early days of Tableau Public My stock market returns dashboard from the earliest days of Tableau Public was used at the opening of the Tableau Customer Conference in 2011. Tableau CEO Christian Chabot picked the data viz a...

03/10/2022

A completely portable, reproducible environment with your programs, data, shiny apps & top packages. Up and running in minutes. R 4.1.2 + RStudio + tidyverse + verse + tex/publishing on , or https://yakdata.com/smartdesktop/ based

02/28/2022

Many benefits to using Desktop from the YakData SmartDesktop repository. Speed, portability, a complete reproducible environment, built with Rocker org content and all under your control with Docker! https://yakdata.com/yakdata-smartdesktop-rstudio-desktop-many-benefits/

12/03/2021

100 second video – Uptime Kuma is an elegant, open source, self-hosted alternative to paid products like UptimeRobot. Monitor web servers, SSL certs, databases, servers, DNS with 70 notification types. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcsiwW-YCVY

Uptime Kuma is an open source, self-hosted alternative to paid products like UptimeRobot. Monitor web servers, SSL certificates, databases, cloud servers, DN...

11/30/2021

Securely share R shiny web apps at scale in minutes with YakData SmartManager for ShinyProxy on AWS. https://yakdata.com/r-shiny-web-apps-at-scale-on-aws-with-shinyproxy/ OpenAnalytics

YakData SmartManager for ShinyProxy on AWS Securely share R shiny web apps at scale in minutes The production-ready way to securely share R shiny web apps & R Markdown docs on AWS at scale, saving you time, money & aggravation. On the AWS Marketplace 🔒 SECURE SHARING The production-ready way to s...

11/26/2021

Open Source Alternative to Trello
Focalboard by Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted 
alternative to Trello, Notion & Asana.Stand-alone app, self-hosted web server or cloud service. https://youtu.be/bf-t7i0URmc

Focalboard by Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.Define, organize, track and manage work for individuals and ...

11/24/2021

VR from just a few images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1NUAssdBU&t=499s ADOP allows a few images to be used as inputs to viewing a real-world scene from any angle. The output are synthesized images from arbitrary camera poses. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

11/23/2021

QuestDB is an open source SQL database designed to process time series data, faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1NUAssdBU&t=43s