We are Tessellation, a modern analytics consultancy.
We enable and manage organizations' analytics and self-service teams by educating people, optimizing technology, developing world-class products, and providing sustainable results.
We make clients and individuals self-sufficient in their analytics ecosystem. We are authorities in the content and training. We’ve developed a focused methodology for our clients to deploy, enhance, and manage cross-department analytics.
We help conceptualize, design, build, and test world-class Tableau, PowerBI, Google Data Studio, and Looker dashboards. Our award-winning developers create dashboards that are elegant in design, highly-performant solutions that render quickly, fully automated, and can still be utilized five years from now.
We provide public and private training on modern analytics tools–such as Tableau, PowerBI, Alteryx, and Snowflake–with fully customized training materials. Our trainers have more than a decade of experience in training and in direct application of these tools.
We work with business users to develop practical analytical models using the latest advances in machine learning in R and Python.
We maintain and support packages to maximize your long-term investment in Tableau, Alteryx, or other self-service tools.
We offer a fast-track development model that is modular, prescriptive, and grounded in best practices and decades of combined experience.
We develop data-driven technical solutions to business problems and partner to advance a stakeholders analytics visions by defining, analyzing, and documenting requirements./p>
November 13th
Calling all problem solvers! Join us as we tackle one of the most revered community initiatives: Workout Wednesday! In this interactive session you’ll flex your brain and grow your Tableau skills as you work through the weekly challenge. Plus, you’ll get to see the dashboards re-created and explained in real time by our coaches.
November 15th
Join us for a fast-paced session of tips and tricks, charts, maps, dashboards and more. Anything is game, but the clock will be ticking. You will learn what’s possible to create in Tableau in two minutes or less.
November 19th
Join us and learn how to turn data into actionable insights faster than you ever imagined. Listen to stories from analytic experts on how they use self-service analytics to alter their businesses. Bring your own data problem and see how quickly you can transform it into actionable insight and revolutionize your analytics with a solution that allows you to redesign, rediscover, and reimagine what’s possible.
tessellation \ noun \ ˌte-sə-ˈlā-shən :
A repeated pattern with no gaps.
We partner with clients to change the way they interact with data and analytics tools. We transform clients into outcome-driven organizations through sustainable, repeatable processes and enable them to focus more on understanding their business and less on the process of collecting and analyzing data.
Our process is more than just providing clients with a strategy overview: it’s about coaching leaders, training analysts and data experts, creating sustainable processes, and managing and sustaining data and analytics products at the highest levels.
Our dashboards, workflows, and data pipelines are held to a highest standard of quality. Our solutions allow end users to answer the next question.
Our team is a mix of award-winning industry leaders and top young talent who are out to prove their skills. We help craft a roadmap and get to solutions quickly.
Our distributed network of consultants and unique blend of on-site and remote work allows organizations to utilize top-tier professionals at a lower cost.
We combine our hard working, talented team with agile processes to get to results faster.
Because we are boutique, we recognize the importance of strong, long-lasting relationships with our clients and their employees. We want to provide the results you need.
#2. Create products for end users.
With input coming from many directions it’s easy to get lost in the process of creating data products. We stay grounded by focusing on the needs of end users. Whether it’s output from an algorithm or a dashboard, our products enable end users and maximize results for the organization.
#3. Remain highly aligned.
All along the way, we like to make sure our sponsors are highly aligned throughout the engagement. It is very important to us that our consultants communicate frequently to our project stakeholders about where the project stands so surprises are rare. For large engagements, we establish steering committees to ensure visibility and executive support which accelerates change.
#4. Embrace agility.
We believe that organizations should embrace at least some parts of the Agile approach. We like to use one- or two-week time boxes to produce results, minimize risk, and deliver rapid change. Through this agile process, cross-functional teams should meet daily to discuss progress to reduce slower communication methods. Through communication and documentation these tasks should be documented using project management tools for efficient, transparent communication within teams, across teams, and to managers and executives.
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