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P3 Adaptive Jobs: Time to Come Home?

March 27, 2021 Self-Service BI

Welcome Home: It’s not just a bombastic prog-metal song

Continuous hiring mode

In P3’s history, we’ve had a bit of a “reactive cyclical” hiring model. Demand for our services would grow, stretching us to the limits of staffing, so we’d add 1-2 new consultants. And those new consultants would instantly take us from “short of capacity” to “excess capacity,” so we’d kinda pause hiring for awhile. Then the cycle would repeat.

I think that era is over, and we’re now going to be continually hiring. The value proposition we bring to clients is second to none, and that reputation has a way of getting around over time. Plus we now have a full-time marketing department (I have a team reporting to me again!), and they’re very good at what they do.

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The Best Place to Work

If you’re keen on the Power Platform, I think we are THE best place to work. That’s the kind of bold claim that must be followed up with some “why” detail, so here goes…

We are committed to The Right Thing.

You know all those frustrating moments when you KNOW something could be faster/more effective/less stupid, but “the powers that be” block the proposed improvement for some sort of selfish or fearful bureaucratic reason? Or even worse, because they don’t like where the idea came from (aka you)? Yeah, that doesn’t happen here. Our clients hire us, by definition, because they want to evolve. If they wanted slow, wasteful, and bureaucratic, they’d hire one of the more traditional firms in this space.

For our clients, we always pursue the path that provides the maximum possible benefit in the shortest responsible timelines. We don’t milk projects or drag them out. If something can be done for a client in a day, we do it in a day, and we’re always raising the bar in terms of how we can help their business. We feel GOOD about what we do, and if we don’t, we speak up and make changes.

Some people might call this an overrated benefit, but I chose to lead with it, because it’s HUGE. There’s something about doing valuable work, and being appreciated for it – for seeing its impact, and hearing people GUSH at you about how much you’ve helped them – that makes work feel a lot less like work. As human beings we are WIRED for this sort of positive, small-scale cooperation, and at P3, our business model is to lean into that – hard.

Corollary: it’s rarely boring.

We also don’t hoard knowledge from our clients, so over time, some of them decide to take on more and more of the work themselves, and lean on us for the harder parts. On average, this means that the projects we execute tend to be more “intellectual challenge” than “grinding slog.”

And since we avoid project plans that waste clients’ time (above), we find ourselves in the stimulating end of the pool more often than the boring one. Yes, ALL jobs have some boring parts, but we’re lighter on those than you’ll find anywhere else.

The pay is competitive. Then we add 30%.

We pay a good salary and offer top-notch benefits, so that’s good. But then we do something unusual: on average, our consultants make an additional 30% (relative to their salary) in monthly incentive bonuses.

We have a “when the company wins, you win” philosophy, and we back that with money – significant money. Attaboys (and Attagirls!) are nice, but we prefer to accompany them with currency rather than Starbucks gift cards, because that’s what WE would prefer.

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We’ll still be a remote company when COVID is gone.

We shrugged off COVID because we
were ready for it before it happened

Long before COVID forced other companies into “work from home mode,” we were already 100% operating on that model. We know how to make it work, we prefer it, and we have no plans to convert to office-based when the pandemic passes.

So, no commute ever again – reclaim those hours of your life forever. And as long as you’re hitting your deliverables, the job is super flexible about how you juggle your day between personal and professional demands.

In fact we’re such an outlier on this remote work front (and our incentive plan) that Authority Magazine interviewed me about our approach last year.

You = “our people.”

Future team members who are reading this, you are ALREADY one of us, you just haven’t showed up yet wlEmoticon smile P3 Adaptive Jobs: Time to Come Home?

Our interview process doesn’t explicitly select for this sort of thing, but it might as well, because everyone who comes through it shares some amazing qualities – human qualities. The people at P3 Adaptive are funny, warm, interesting, and helpful. Talented and self-deprecating. Underappreciated and often isolated in their former roles.

But here, it’s kinda like that tap-dancing “bee girl” in the Blind Melon video when she finds her Bee People at the end:

Such a cheesy metaphor that I wouldn’t dare say it if it weren’t true

It’s kinda bizarre, considering the probabilities involved at our size, but we don’t have any jerks! ZERO! Just really cool people. I don’t understand it, but I love it.

And I’m looking forward to seeing you around our virtual hallways wlEmoticon smile P3 Adaptive Jobs: Time to Come Home?

Apply Here

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How much time are you wasting on repetitive data entry? Clone or Copy Dynamics 365 CRM records in 1 Click!

March 19, 2021 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

In this day and age being stuck with repetitive data entry is a big NO! And with the number of apps available in the market for Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps users, it’s just a matter of choice.

So, which app to choose?

To help you with this dilemma, we are happy to give you a brief glimpse of what our 1 Click productivity app for Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps – Click2Clone – can do for you.

A Preferred App on Microsoft AppSource, Click2Clone is a productivity app to copy/clone Dynamics 365 CRM records along with related child records with just a single click.

Now let’s see how can Click2Clone help you with repetitive data entry in Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps.

Imagine a situation where you want to create an exact copy of an Order in Dynamics 365 CRM without any tedious manual work. Now if you have Click2Clone installed in your system, then you will be able to easily clone the record in Order entity with just few steps. The first step will be to create an appropriate template for cloning.

In the next step, you can select the fields from the list of attributes that you want to copy and save it.

After this, you can select the relationship from the list to copy the related records and save it.

Next, just go to the Child Template section and add a child template. This is to copy the related child records of that particular Order. Once again you will have to follow the above mentioned procedure – create a new template, select the attributes and relationships that you want to copy and save it.

Once this entire process is completed, just navigate to Order entity, open the record that you want to clone and click on ‘Click2Clone’ button.

And within few seconds an exact copy of the record will be created.

Amazing, isn’t it?

And this is just a glimpse. Click2Clone has so much more to offer such as, you can clone multiple records, create multiple copies of any record, clone record from one entity to another entity and so on.

Visit our website or Microsoft AppSource and find out for yourselves what more you can do with Click2Clone.

And do tell us about your findings at crm@inogic.com

Well, that’s not all, do check out our two other popular & Preferred 1 Click productivity apps for Dynamics 365 CRM/ Power Apps – Click2Export – 1 Click to Export Dynamics 365 Reports & Click2Undo – 1 Click to Undo and Restore Dynamics 365 CRM Records, it also allows to Undo History changes and changes in Bulk.

Until then – Bid Adieu to repetitive data entry!

Choose wisely!

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Invest Your Time in the Right Skills to Become a Data Scientist in 2021

March 4, 2021 TIBCO Spotfire

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When it comes to new year’s resolutions that involve career moves or goals, it may take months or even years to accomplish such aims. For example, to become a data scientist, you must put in the work, gain experience with your own passion projects, and develop your skills over time to really change your career path.

It can be hard to know where to start and often investing time in the wrong skills can distract you from reaching your end goal. In a recent webinar, Steven Hillion and Catalina Herrera answered questions from the data science community on where to focus your energy and how to get hired as a data scientist in 2021.

How to get started and gain experience?

Oftentimes when you’re coming right out of university, you may feel you have little or no working experience. It’s the classic chicken and the egg problem. I need a job to gain experience, but I don’t have the experience to get the job. In this case, Hillion advises, “Don’t rely on just the classes you’ve taken and the projects you’ve done as a part of those classes.”

Even if you’re unable to get an internship, self-motivated projects using public data are a great way to get your foot in the door and show a natural curiosity by exploring data and answering your own questions. Also, non-profits and small businesses could use volunteers to solve their problems with their data. Herrera cautions however to “ensure whatever you put your energy in that you are passionate about it, have some background in it, and understand the topic.” This helps make the process both fun and fulfilling.

What kinds of hands-on experience do you need?

Ground level, you need some type of statistical and machine learning experience. It’s a very broad field, but there are core techniques and methods that you should be familiar with, including classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, text analytics, time series, as well as basic statistical and probability functions.

There’s really no shortage of free resources to learn about methods and how to apply your data science knowledge. In fact, at TIBCO we have Doctor Data Science and Doctor Spotfire, which are monthly programs where TIBCO data scientists will take you through a couple of standard techniques. Past sessions are available on Youtube, covering everything from neural networks to time series to categorical encoding.

What technical skills need to be part of your resume?

Python is the obvious thing to mention. R is still current, but Python is the place to start. Although, the most commonly used programming language remains SQL. Nothing new there, but is the language of data and very important to know. It’s fairly straightforward and scalable. For big data, Spark is worth learning as well. And beyond languages, you’ll want at least a college-level class in statistics and online classes on machine learning.

How to find a job?

May feel like you’re throwing your resume into a black hole if you’re just applying to job boards. Leverage your network and find a way to connect to the jobs that appeal to you through your network or through projects that the team may be working on currently. Recruiting fairs and meetups are also helpful in making connections.

The process of becoming a data scientist and getting hired can feel overwhelming but remember you’re not alone and we want to help. Make sure to watch the full webinar for more expert advice and insight into the hiring process.

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twice-impeached POTUS* boasts: “I may even decide to beat [Democrats] for a third time”

March 2, 2021 Humor

Lost Cause at the Liar’s Poker table. Old whine in new butt-holes.

At one point, Trump claimed that “had we had a fair election, the results would’ve been much different” — even though election security officials from his own administration have confirmed Biden’s victory was the result of a free and fair election.

“The election was rigged,” he lied later, before attacking the Supreme Court for not overthrowing the results for him with language eerily similar to the way he attacked then-Vice President Mike Pence during his speech just before the January 6 insurrection.

“They didn’t have the guts or the courage to make the right decision,” Trump said.

Trump’s lie about the election being rigged was met with chants of “You won! You won!”

[…]

Trump’s shameless and relentless pushing of the big lie was the main takeaway from his CPAC speech. The rest of it was basically a barely modified version of the stump speech he delivered around the country last fall, with a couple additions.

[…]

Trump also echoed one of the major themes of CPAC by railing against “cancel culture.”

But unsurprisingly, the former president seemed particularly animated while putting Republicans who voted for his impeachment or removal from office on blast by name.

“Get rid of ‘em all,” he said, to cheers from the audience. (The irony of Trump saying this at a conference whose theme was “America Uncanceled” was apparently lost on them.)

www.vox.com/…

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If anyone is wondering whether Trump is still lying about having had the election stolen from him — the same lie that led to the murderous assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6…

Well, that was a silly thing to wonder. Of course he’s still lying about it.https://t.co/WoLj9bcOzb

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) March 1, 2021

“This election was rigged,” Trump lies, prompting CPAC attendees to chant, ‘you won! you won!”

Trump then attacks the Supreme Court for not overthrowing the election result for him

“The didn’t have the guts or the courage to make the right decision,” Trump says pic.twitter.com/HYo4IiaWFI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2021

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Kevin Hart Joins John Hamburg For New Netflix Comedy Film Titled ‘Me Time’

February 27, 2021 Humor

Hamburg, who wrote the Meet the Parents movies in the 2000s, wrote the script and will direct.

Kevin Hart has reteamed up with John Hamburg, who wrote the comedian’s hit, Night School, for Me Time, a comedy set up at Netflix.

Hamburg, perhaps best known for writing the Meet the Parents comedies and directing Along Came Polly in the early 2000s, wrote the script and is directing and producing.

Hart is also producing with Bryan Smiley and the duo’s HartBeat Productions. Lauren Hennessey will also exec produce.

The script centers on a stay-at-home dad who finds himself with some “me time” for the first time in years while his wife and kids are away. He reconnects with his former best friend for a wild weekend that nearly upends his life.

The project falls under Hart’s recent deal with Netflix which calls for the actor to star and produce at least four features while also establishing a first-look deal. The goal is to shoot the project later this year.

Joe Gatta will also executive produce.

Hamburg’s Meet the Parents movies were early 2000s comedy mainstays that starred Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, among others. The Universal movies grossed over $ 1.1 billion worldwide. Hamburg also wrote and direct Along Came Polly, another Stiller hit that also starred Jennifer Aniston, and I Love You Man, which starred Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Night School, which he wrote and saw Hart star opposite Tiffany Haddish, was a $ 100 million hit when it was released in 2018.

Hart is prepping to shoot Lionsgate’s high-profile video game adaptation Borderlands and recently wrapped Sony’s action-comedy Man from Toronto opposite Woody Harrelson.

Hamburg is repped by WME, manager Mikkel Bondesen, and Sloss Eckhouse while Hart by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Schrek Rose.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Ta-Nehisi Coates To Write New Superman Movie Reboot

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Why it’s time for fintechs and FIs to jump on the open banking bandwagon (VB Live)

January 28, 2021 Big Data

Presented by Envestnet | Yodlee

As open banking initiatives gain traction, fintechs and innovative financial firms are in an ideal position to deliver personalized products, apps, and services based on consumer-permissioned data. Learn how to prepare and more in this VB Live event!

Register here for free.

Progress is continuing on the open banking front, and the forward movement is promising, says Brian Costello, VP of Data Strategy and Strategic Initiatives at Envestnet | Yodlee.

Open banking gives consumers more control over their financial data. New privacy regulations allow consumers to more easily access and share their account information to find solutions that best suit their financial needs. The opportunity for financial institutions is significant: as consumers give permission to third-party companies to use their data, banks and fintechs can provide a variety of applications and services to improve their financial wellbeing — including managing personal finances, obtaining loans, making payments, providing investment advice, and more.

And there are clear signs of progress toward the widespread adoption of open banking, explains Costello. It can be measured by the number of data access agreements now being signed between aggregators and financial data providers, and the engagement of stakeholders, data providers, aggregators, and fintechs.

Membership in initiatives like the Financial Data Exchange, FDX, and the Financial Data and Technology Association, FDATA North America, is growing in the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, the advisory council on consumer-directed finance in Canada did a series of stakeholder meetings in the fall, and on December 31, 2020, put a recommendation on the desk of the Minister of Finance. And when the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau establishes public rulemaking around Dodd-Frank 1033, it should put a regulatory underpinning on the open banking initiative in the U.S., including an affirmative right for a consumer to access and use their own data.

“As much progress as we’re making in enabling consumers and small businesses to engage with third parties for positive financial outcomes, as much progress as we’re making in building an environment for innovators and developers to turn their ideas into a service, an app, a customer engagement,” he says, “we also need to make sure we’re protecting consumers as we’re shifting these types of financial services to these innovative, wholly digital propositions.”

For financial institutions and fintechs that haven’t jumped on the open banking bandwagon, it’s not too soon to get started, he says, even if it’s not on the road map from a technical standpoint.

“An FI that’s not familiar with what’s going on might think that there is a lot to do before they can even get started, and that simply isn’t so,” Costello says. “They can crawl, walk, and run into a safer, more customer-impactful role in the U.S. open banking ecosystem right now, today. There is no reason to be on the fence anymore.”

The whole ecosystem is about choice, he says. It’s about the consumer’s and small business’s choice to engage with a third party that is right for them. It is about the developer’s, the innovator’s choice, and fintech’s choice to engage with the platform provider that’s right for them. The challenge with choice is, when you have a lot of selections at the table, it’s sometimes hard to choose how to start, but that shouldn’t stop a consumer or an FI, he says.

“If you’re a consumer, look at what your needs are and start doing the research, talk to people,” he says. “If you’re an innovator and you’ve got a great idea, we need that idea in practice today. If you’re an FI and you’re sitting back waiting to see how things are going to coalesce, they’re coalescing right now. We need you involved now.”

Don’t miss out!

Register here for free.

Attendees will learn:

What’s happening with open banking in the U.S.
How open banking ecosystems work
Ways open APIs drive financial wellness
How to leverage deep consumer insights
How to prepare for open banking

Speakers:

Peter Polson, Founder, Tiller Money
David Nohe, CEO, FinGoal
Brian Costello, VP, Data Strategy and Strategic Initiatives, Envestnet | Yodlee
Evan Schuman, Moderator

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P3 Jobs: Time to Come Home?

January 26, 2021 Self-Service BI

Welcome Home: It’s not just a bombastic prog-metal song

Continuous hiring mode

Apply Here

The Best Place to Work

If you’re keen on the Power Platform, I think we are THE best place to work. That’s the kind of bold claim that must be followed up with some “why” detail, so here goes…

We are committed to The Right Thing.

Corollary: it’s rarely boring.

The pay is competitive. Then we add 30%.

Apply Here

We’ll still be a remote company when COVID is gone.

We shrugged off COVID because we
were ready for it before it happened

In fact we’re such an outlier on this remote work front (and our incentive plan) that Authority Magazine interviewed me about our approach last year.

You = “our people.”

Future team members who are reading this, you are ALREADY one of us, you just haven’t showed up yet wlEmoticon smile P3 Jobs: Time to Come Home?

Our interview process doesn’t explicitly select for this sort of thing, but it might as well, because everyone who comes through it shares some amazing qualities – human qualities. The people at P3 are funny, warm, interesting, and helpful. Talented and self-deprecating. Underappreciated and often isolated in their former roles.

But here, it’s kinda like that tap-dancing “bee girl” in the Blind Melon video when she finds her Bee People at the end:

Such a cheesy metaphor that I wouldn’t dare say it if it weren’t true

It’s kinda bizarre, considering the probabilities involved at our size, but we don’t have any jerks! ZERO! Just really cool people. I don’t understand it, but I love it.

And I’m looking forward to seeing you around our virtual hallways wlEmoticon smile P3 Jobs: Time to Come Home?

Apply Here

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TIBCO4Good and She Loves Data Offer Free Data Skills Workshops During a Time of Vulnerability

January 20, 2021 TIBCO Spotfire

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New to designing meaningful, interactive data visualizations and dashboards? Want to learn how to better understand and prepare your data? Then TIBCO4Good^™’s recently launched “Back on Your Feet” program is for you. Built in partnership with Singapore Management University (SMU) and She Loves Data, this global program can help you up your data visualization and dashboard building skills and stay competitive in today’s professional job market.

Back on Your Feet Program: Empowering Individuals Impacted by the Pandemic

The “Back on Your Feet” program was designed specifically to help educate individuals affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic. It offers a series of workshops and training sessions to empower individuals who may have lost their jobs due to the pandemic and want to increase their competitiveness in an increasingly tough marketplace.

SMU, a premier university in Asia, internationally recognized for its research and distinguished teaching, has developed the course content, including discussions on how to design, develop, and deploy analytic dashboards. “The pandemic has upended the lives and livelihoods of many around the world. As an engaged city university with a strong suite of expertise in computing research and education, the School of Computing and Information Systems is keen to contribute to this meaningful program by TIBCO through our partnership with She Loves Data to upskill and re-skill individuals impacted by the economic malaise, thereby creating a positive impact on the community in Singapore and beyond,” said Professor Pang Hwee Hwa, Dean of SMU School of Computing and Information Systems.

TIBCO4Good and She Loves Data Offer Free Data Skills Workshops During a Time of Vulnerability — From left to right: Nina Conseil, Global Certification Programs at She Loves Data, Bernard Tay and Justin Choy are Teaching Assistants and Rafael J. Barros is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Program Benefits and Session Structure

Upon completion of the workshops, participants are certified as dashboard and forecasting specialists and receive a free TIBCO Spotfire^® license for a year. The program began in APJ in November and December 2020, will extend to the U.S. in early 2021, followed closely by EMEA.

Here’s a quick overview of the program structure:

Module 1: Dashboard exploration as an end user; Marking and filtering concepts
Module 2: Asking the right questions by understanding what data is important; Foundations of charts and basic visualizations
Module 3: Basics in data cleaning, advanced visualizations, and connecting to multiple data sources
Module 4: Designing the dashboard for end-user consumption

Your Chance to Up Your Dashboarding Skills

Join us for the second edition of a series of four training modules designed to help you become a dashboard specialist. In the first session, 230 attendees participated actively in the program. Register now for the next event on February 20th!
And to learn more about other TIBCO4Good initiatives helping communities around the world, head to www.tibco.com/tibco4good.

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4 Examples of Companies That Save Time and Money by Easily Automating Manual Tasks and Processes

January 9, 2021 CRM News and Info

We are experiencing a dizzying rate of technological change. It’s both overwhelming and exciting at the same time. Sometimes we don’t even realize how much innovation is already a part of our daily lives. From restaurant apps for online food ordering to self-checkout at the grocery store to robotic vacuum cleaners, automation helps us function more efficiently and freely.

Software automation is at the top of the list of areas that will bring tremendous opportunity for businesses. When technology is used to improve business processes, you uncover new ways of doing things and free up people for more valuable tasks than those that can be completed by the software.

According to estimates from Accenture, financial services companies in North America alone stand to gain $ 140 billion in productivity yields and cost savings by 2025 by adopting automation technologies.

Whether you are a bank, insurance company or a manufacturer of consumer goods – businesses that embrace a software automation strategy can bring untold efficiencies and cost-savings to the organization.

With software automation, businesses entrust tools and platforms to perform processes according to specified rules and policies. You’ve heard of the, “if this, then that” model.

And the beauty is that automation platforms now empower “citizen developers”, or non-tech users to automate outdated or manually intensive processes. Microsoft’s Power Platform is an example of a platform where people can turn great ideas into impactful solutions.

At Crowe, we are not only innovating on the Power Platform with solutions we’re bringing to market, but we’re also opening customer’s eyes to what’s possible in their own organization.

Some real-world examples of automation in the workplace:

An insurance agency sends automated, but highly personalized reminders to policy holders 90, 60, 30 days in advance of their policy renewal date.
A bank created an automation script that runs at a specific time of the day to archive large files of supporting loan documentation submitted by potential borrowers.
A manufacturer created a chat bot to handle the “night shift” and answer basic product questions. It also expanded their customer service with 24×7 support.
A bank created an automated script that sends a notification to a relationship manager if an online banking customer hasn’t logged into online banking for a period of time.

Instead of getting people to work like robots, software automation does the tasks most people don’t want to do, or are too busy to do, in the first place.

Automation not only allows organizations to achieve operational agility and capture huge cost efficiencies, it also helps them to deliver the digital experiences that customers increasingly demand.

Crowe is helping many companies get started on this journey. We find that most companies need help from outside resources – if anything, just to make sure they are on the right path. The bulk of our support comes from solving an initial problem, and then with some training and mentoring, support can be moved in-house over time.

What do they say, “give a business a fish, and you feed them for a day; teach a business to fish using the Power Platform, and you feed them for a lifetime”?

Crowe can help you use the Microsoft Power Platform along with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to simplify your business.

Contact our team to start the discussion at crminfo@crowe.com or 877-600-2253.

By Ryan Plourde, Crowe, a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Gold Partner www.CroweCRM.com

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Visualize 5 Cool Insights on Holiday Tree Trends Over Time

December 31, 2020 TIBCO Spotfire

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Did you know Thomas Edison’s assistants proposed putting electric lights on Christmas trees? There’s a long and rich history surrounding holiday trees, in America and around the world. According to the History Channel, symbolic traditions involving evergreen trees in winter began in ancient Egypt and Rome and continue to take on new meaning today.

New Holiday Traditions: Annual Analytics

Here at TIBCO, we’ve started our own holiday tradition involving the classic festive trees: using our data visualization software to understand trends in holiday tree data. Last year, we shared our analysis and “treemap” visualization (quite literally a treemap of trees) via TIBCO Spotfire^®. This year, we dived even deeper into the data, using the new Spotfire Mods functionality to design custom apps for greater interactivity. Here’s what we found:

Top Tree Producing States: All 50 states contribute to the holiday tree industry, but our analysis shows the greatest production occurs in Oregon, North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Also interesting is that while Oregon and North Carolina are top producers overall, states like Ohio and Michigan definitely over-index for total tree producing counties as a percentage of their total land area.

Visualize 5 Cool Insights on Holiday Tree Trends Over Time — *Immersive, interactive exploration of a bubble “tree-map” visualization Mod alongside county-level Spotfire geoanalytics [*source: USDA census data]*

Artificial vs. Real Tree Sales: As you can see below, artificial tree sales have been on the rise over the last decade, with 162 percent growth between 2004 and 2018. Artificial trees are taking over. Actually, 81 percent of the trees on display, whether in storefronts, businesses, or homes, in 2019 were of the artificial variety. But what does that mean for the global economy when China produces 80 percent of artificial trees worldwide and given that artificial trees cannot be recycled like real trees?

Rising Average Price of Real Trees: According to an article in the Hustle, “During the recession in 2008, ailing farmers planted too few trees. As a result, prices have been much higher since 2016.” The article also cites the National Christmas Tree Association as stating that the average retail price for a real tree in 2019 was $ 75. Obviously, this is a huge market, but one that continues to shift with economic and social changes—which makes us wonder just how different our analysis next year will look.

Consumer Demand Lower in 2019: In the area chart visualization above, we see that sales for natural trees still account for a larger share of the market. However, the artificial tree category set new high marks for sales in each year progressively from 2016 to 2018. Why could this be? One hypothesis might be that as Baby Boomers retire as “empty-nesters” and downsize their homes, they are buying fewer trees, but let us know your thoughts on this surprising find.

The More the Merrier? Multiple Trees: According to a survey by the American Christmas Tree Association, the number of households in the United States that display more than one Christmas tree has grown by 10 percent from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, approximately 16 percent of American households display multiple trees. But will this trend continue or, as with the overall tree sales, will the number of trees per household decrease in the coming years?

We’ve started our own holiday tradition involving the classic festive trees: using our data visualization software to understand trends in holiday tree data. Click To Tweet

A New Tradition: Immersive Yourself in Custom Analytics Applications

But this is just one festive story you could tell around data trends. What about shopping trends this year, will there be an increase in small business online sales? What will be the top gifted items in 2020?
You tell us! Join our tradition, and read our whitepaper to learn how the immersive qualities of Hyperconverged Analytics will create new value for your business. For a closer look at all of “What’s New in Spotfire^®” including visualization Mods, watch our 20-minute intro webinar on demand.

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P3 Adaptive Jobs: Time to Come Home?

Continuous hiring mode

The Best Place to Work

We are committed to The Right Thing.

Corollary: it’s rarely boring.

The pay is competitive. Then we add 30%.

We’ll still be a remote company when COVID is gone.

You = “our people.”

How much time are you wasting on repetitive data entry? Clone or Copy Dynamics 365 CRM records in 1 Click!

Invest Your Time in the Right Skills to Become a Data Scientist in 2021

How to get started and gain experience?

What kinds of hands-on experience do you need?

What technical skills need to be part of your resume?

How to find a job?

twice-impeached POTUS* boasts: “I may even decide to beat [Democrats] for a third time”

Kevin Hart Joins John Hamburg For New Netflix Comedy Film Titled ‘Me Time’

Hamburg, who wrote the Meet the Parents movies in the 2000s, wrote the script and will direct.

Ta-Nehisi Coates To Write New Superman Movie Reboot

Why it’s time for fintechs and FIs to jump on the open banking bandwagon (VB Live)

P3 Jobs: Time to Come Home?

Continuous hiring mode

The Best Place to Work

We are committed to The Right Thing.

Corollary: it’s rarely boring.

The pay is competitive. Then we add 30%.

We’ll still be a remote company when COVID is gone.

You = “our people.”

TIBCO4Good and She Loves Data Offer Free Data Skills Workshops During a Time of Vulnerability

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