Category: Data Analytics

Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Data Analytics, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Machine Learning, News, Python, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup.

Join us for an informative and interactive meetup that explores the benefits of integrating Python with FileMaker. Learn how Python can enhance your Claris FileMaker solutions by enabling data and visual analytics, IT automation, and AI + Machine Learning integration.

We’ll cover “Getting Started” with Python (using FileMaker 2024 on macOS for the demo) and briefly review various integration methods, such as web viewers, plugins and serverless options. We’ll demo an example FileMaker solution, bzPython-FM.

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Dreamforce 2024 Recap

by Russ Catanach
Posted in AI, All, Beezwax News, Business, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Machine Learning, Marketing, Slack, Tableau

Dreamforce was often a bit of a disruption for me as a San Franciscan—traffic, closed roads, did I mention traffic? This year, instead of sitting in my car waiting to inch forward, I shared a Waymo to get around The City, and experienced Dreamforce firsthand. As a marketer and technologist, I was eager to see how Salesforce presented itself. As a company, Beezwax paid close attention to this conference, especially innovation happening with Tableau and Slack.

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bzPython-FM performs Python for your FileMaker apps

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, bBox, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, FM Products, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons

bzPython-FM easily performs Python code within FileMaker, using the bBox plugin.

There are literally thousands of Python packages out there, for AI and Machine Learning, data analysis, data science and IT automation — now at your fingertips from within FileMaker.

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Leveraging pandas with Python to Analyze FileMaker Data Sets

by Nat Robinson
Posted in bBox, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Server, Integration, Python, Tableau FM, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

The pandas library for Python has become a go-to tool for many data scientists and analysts. In this blog post, we’ll examine one strategy for leveraging the highly powerful tools within pandas to enhance data analysis capabilities using the Claris FileMaker platform. We’ll do this by calling the bBox plugin and its built-in Python functions.

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Handling Historical Data with FileMaker and AWS Athena, S3 & Serverless

by Fabio Bosisio
Posted in All, AWS, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Logging, Reporting, Software Design, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

In this blog post, we will explore a solution for optimising a FileMaker app that handles large amounts of data. We will address the challenges of data storage, file corruption, and performance degradation when dealing with historical data.

By leveraging cloud storage and serverless computing, we can offload and query this data efficiently, ensuring better performance and scalability.

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Tableau Conference 2023 – Highlights

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau, Tableau FM

Greetings from Tableau Conference 2023 (TC23) in Las Vegas, and beyond. Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau Developer team is attending, both in-person and virtual.

TC23 is designed to reveal and inspire, with new product information, plus Tableau (and Salesforce) company roadmaps. More importantly, there’s plenty of insight from TC23 sessions including technical topics, case studies, thought leadership, cool demos, community inspiration, and hands-on learning.

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Data Visualization in FileMaker Web Viewer

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Claris Development, Community, Data Analytics, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker Go, Integration, Reporting, Techniques

Alec Gregory from Beezwax presents at the Claris FileMaker for Research User Group.

Let’s talk about Claris® FileMaker® and data visualization with FileMaker 19 web viewer, and developing with open source tools!

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Datathon for Social Good 2022 @ UC Berkeley

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Tableau

Datathon for Social Good 2022 is the 4th-annual event for UC Berkeley students to show off their data science skills through real-world project applications. With a focus on technology applied toward social good, this Datathon allows participants the opportunity to explore and tackle current social issues by employing data science to leave a real-world impact.

An Exploration into Environmental Justice & Urban Sciences

This year’s Datathon has several competition tracks that focus on different societal issues ranging from urban sciences to environmental sustainability. Datasets and tools will be provided by CalData, Earth Hacks and Deepnote. Teams create visualizations, analyses, or machine learning models addressing any aspect of the given datasets, which are then presented to partnering organizations and judges.

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Tableau Conference 2022 – Day 3

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau

We finished three days of Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! The in-person and virtual attendees from Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau development teams shared a few more highlights of TC22 sessions, with information, insights and a few key takeaways.
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Tableau Conference 2022 – Day 2

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau

Hello again from the end of Day 2 at Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! The in-person and virtual attendees from Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau development teams shared more highlights of TC22 sessions, with information, insights and a few key takeaways.
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Tableau Conference 2022 – Highlights

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Python, Reporting, Tableau

Hello from Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! Attending in-person from Beezwax were Rob, Sarah, Vince and Jay from our Tableau/Analytics team, with several more Beez joining virtually.
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A fast, flexible Tableau Connector for FileMaker

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in All, Claris Development, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker 19, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Performance, Tableau, Tableau FM, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Building a custom Tableau® Connector for Claris® FileMaker® enables faster, more reliable and more flexible connections between Tableau and FileMaker datasources, compared with the legacy Web Data Connector.

For a number of Beezwax client projects, we’ve installed and deployed a Tableau Connector (aka “TACO”) for FileMaker. The TACO was built using the Tableau Connector SDK (provided by Tableau) to connect to datasources on FileMaker Server. The TACO method uses JDBC rather than the FileMaker Data API for the connection between FileMaker and Tableau, and in our testing the performance of data extracts was up to 10 times faster.

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Day 3 Sessions | Tableau Conference 2019

by Long Nguyen
Posted in Community, Data Analytics, Events, Reporting, Tableau

And we feel welcomed!
Greeting us from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center

Hello again from Tableau Conference 2019 in sunny Las Vegas! Here at Beezwax, we had 5 attendees this year with a diverse set of sessions between us. I wanted to give a rundown of what I went through and some of my takeaways.

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Day 2 Sessions | Tableau Conference 2019

by Long Nguyen
Posted in Community, Data Analytics, Events, Reporting, Tableau

And we feel welcomed!
Greeting us from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center

Hello again from Tableau Conference 2019 in sunny Las Vegas! Here at Beezwax, we had 5 attendees this year with a diverse set of sessions between us. I wanted to give a rundown of what I went through and some of my takeaways.
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The Impact of Data Viz | Tableau Conference 2019 Day 1

by Long Nguyen
Posted in Data Analytics, Design, Events, Tableau

And we feel welcomed!

Greetings from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center!

It’s Day 1 of the Tableau Conference 2019, and there is so much to see and do here! Prior to tonight’s kickoff, one of the exhibits that I was keen to visit is a Viz Gallery set up on the second floor. Studying each piece, I found myself struck with inspiration with regards to how I feel about data.
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Tableau to FileMaker | Scheduled Extracts

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 17, Tableau FM

Once you have crafted a Tableau dashboard, pulling data from your FileMaker solution, then your next goal might be to make sure the dashboard data gets refreshed at regular intervals, and in an efficient manner. And that is what we’ll do in this blog post.

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FileMaker to Tableau | The Learning Journey

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 17, FileMaker Server, Integration, Tableau FM, Tools & Add-ons

Now that the FileMaker Data API has been officially released (with FileMaker 17), it is time to share an update on Tableau-to-FileMaker integration. I originally wrote about integrating Tableau and FileMaker to create a match made in data heaven. I’ll also be speaking on “FileMaker + Tableau” at FileMaker DevCon 2018.

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Large d3.js Application Development

by Ryan Simms
Posted in All, Data Analytics, Front-end Design, Front-end Development, JavaScript, Software Design, Tools, Web Development

“Code that belongs”.

This is the mantra, the quest, of Beezwax Senior Developer Ryan Simms; which he discusses in this 10-part article on building a large-scale web application using d3.js. It is to write code that fits the context intrinsically. The article focuses on specific techniques with the data visualization library, d3.js. But the lessons are broad: How do you make something fit — in ways that feel like it belongs?

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FileMaker Konferenz, Salzburg 2017

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Data Analytics, Events, FileMaker, InspectorPro, Performance, Tableau FM

The 8th FileMaker Konferenz is happening October 12 – 14, 2017 at the Crowne Plaza Pitter Event Center in Salzburg, Austria.

At the konferenz Vincenzo Menanno, director of FileMaker Development for Beezwax presents two sessions on advanced FileMaker development:

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FileMaker & Tableau | A Match Made in Data Heaven!

by Vincenzo Menanno
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Data Analytics, FileMaker, FileMaker 16, FileMaker 17, Integration, Tableau FM

Last year when I wrote this blog post we were talking about FileMaker 16 and the Data API being in beta. Now that FileMaker 17 has officially been released and along with it the Data API is out of beta and is a version 1.0.

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