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    Default Data analytics software - recommendation needed

    Anyone knowledgeable about the various data analytics software packages out there and pros and cons of each?

    Might be getting involved in a project that involves analysing drilling data. Ease of use for non-programmers is good, as is the ability to share data or any customized reports or dashboards between users. Ideally cloud based as we don't have an office, so each of us would be working from different locations.

    All of us have previous experience doing this type of work inside MS Excel, but a more powerful tool might save us a lot of time.

    I know Tableau, MS Power BI, what else is out there?
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    The company i work for was traditionally using Spotfire and Alteryx, but we are moving towards Power BI.

    If you're looking for a consultant/company to do this work for you, would suggest you check out Fuzeium...local Calgary company and run by some really sharp people. https://fuzeium.com/

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    Spitfire is pretty good I have been trying to drink the koolaid and use it as I was a bit stuck in excel prior and wasting a lot of time with certain things. If you are doing O&G stuff Verdazo (Visage) is also well regarded though I have never really dabbled.
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    Personally i'm biased towards MS so my recommendation would be Power BI... it's not very hard to learn and if you're used to MS already things will be at least familiar. Lots of good tutorials out there and i believe the personal version is completely free. Pro version has fair pricing at around $10 a month per user

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    For O&G Verdazo is very powerful.

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    That Power BI looks very interesting.

    Wondering if it does relational tables better than spotfire, particularly coming from Access.

    Might be worth messing around with on a weekend to see why it can do.

    Anyone comment on how it handles advanced statistical functions? I don’t have time to learn R in order to make use of TERR for anything more than basic regressions and relationships in spotfire.
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    I am the quant
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    You hipsters, forcing me to look up what a 'quant' is.
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    Where is the data coming from? As in, is it a manual process or automated? If automated, does the software need to be able to grab the data or just listen for it?

    You looking for dashboarding or true analytics?

    PowerBI is cool, but I'm not a huge fan of it so far. It does seem to cater to the Excel pro crowd though, so that might be a plus for you. It was my first trial for some simple dashboarding, but lack of pre-built plugins made me go elsewhere. Paying a few extra bucks a month to save myself countless hours building my own plugins made that decision for me.

    Ended up going with Klipfolio for our dashboarding, only because the web and social media analytics pieces were already built in and editable (not so much in PowerBI). Their support is actually pretty great too. First choice was BrightGuage (industry specific), but they're super expensive.

    I'm super curious about Splunk. They offer a free account that's good enough to check it out. One of these days, when I discover what free time is, I'll connect our infrastructure at Q9 to it and see what it's all about. I guess all you need to do is feed it data and then...magic. No idea, haven't tried it yet.

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    I'm considering getting myself a machine learning quant so I won't have to.
    What exactly are you trying to build?

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    What exactly are you trying to build?
    I'd be happy to take that discussion offline. Want to have a coffee IRL? (using lingo to confuse speedog)
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    I'd be happy to take that discussion offline. Want to have a coffee IRL? (using lingo to confuse speedog)
    Ok, but I don't see the need for speedog to be there. He doesn't appear to be as speedy nowadays.

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    Where is the data coming from? As in, is it a manual process or automated? If automated, does the software need to be able to grab the data or just listen for it?

    You looking for dashboarding or true analytics?.
    To start, it'll be manual data uploads, looking at static historical data. Plan is to move into live data with dadhboarding, and then at a later date, move into true analytics.

    Still fine-tuning the business model with a couple of business partners. Have two clients that have offered to let us beta-test our concept on thier data, but they each want very different things. Obviously will need to clarify the revenue model.

    Can safely ignore social integration, that's not part of this concept.

    Also forgive me if I'm not using the lingo correctly. This hasn't been my area previously, and I have a lot to learn.

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    I need to look at spotfire again too. I used to have a guy that ran that for me, and it was good at making pretty pictures, but my guy never did anything complex with it. Of course, I didn't ask him to either. So maybe that's on me.
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    Do your POC in PowerBi for free and go from there. Tableau and Spotfire aren't cheap unless you've got capital invested. Most places will have 1 of these 3, some have 2/3.

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    Our office mainly uses Spotifre and it's great for most things. Experienced users can work around non typical functions and code it within Spotfire, I find myself using other software for specific actions.

    We have also tried Verdazo but really didn't like it. The data is closed off (non-editable) and you have to pay them to load in specific data for you, etc. Then again, that was when they were still called Visage so maybe my experiences aren't relevant anymore.

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    Did the first project the old fashioned way in excel, very low-fi. Have another project coming together that verdazo has agreed to partner with us on, so the costs to us should be zero, and should be very low for the client.
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