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title: Blog — DataDrive | Tommy Ranney
description: "I love the entire process of data visualization and self-service analytics. Anything from cleaning and merging data sources, to making a seamless integrated dashboard gets me excited to log on to work every day. Being able to give easy access to data that may not have been accessible before is my professional passion, and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Outside of work, you’re most likely to find me on a lake. My biggest passion in life is musky fishing and I spend countless hours in the summer chasing the elusive predator. I’m also an avid ice angler, so there’s really not a season where I’m not outdoors enjoying myself."
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# Tommy Ranney

I love the entire process of data visualization and self-service analytics. Anything from cleaning and merging data sources, to making a seamless integrated dashboard gets me excited to log on to work every day. Being able to give easy access to data that may not have been accessible before is my professional passion, and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen. Outside of work, you’re most likely to find me on a lake. My biggest passion in life is musky fishing and I spend countless hours in the summer chasing the elusive predator. I’m also an avid ice angler, so there’s really not a season where I’m not outdoors enjoying myself.

[![Breaking Down Data Silos ](https://godatadrive.com/hubfs/data-silos.jpg) ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/relationship-modeling-power-bi)

#### [Breaking Down Data Silos with Relationship Modeling in Power BI](https://godatadrive.com/blog/relationship-modeling-power-bi)

![Picture of Tommy Ranney](https://godatadrive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/tommy-3.png?width=30&name=tommy-3.png) [Tommy Ranney: ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/author/tommy-ranney) Mar 4, 2022

A common issue many analysts face throughout their career is breaking down data silos to bring everything together in a single report. In many cases, this is where we wind up with a Frakenstein’s Monster of an Excel workbook, with a lot of data...

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[![Working with JSON in Snowflake Tommy Ranney](https://godatadrive.com/hubfs/tommy-blog.jpg) ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/working-with-json-in-snowflake)

#### [Working with JSON in Snowflake](https://godatadrive.com/blog/working-with-json-in-snowflake)

![Picture of Tommy Ranney](https://godatadrive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/tommy-3.png?width=30&name=tommy-3.png) [Tommy Ranney](https://godatadrive.com/blog/author/tommy-ranney): Dec 20, 2021

Snowflake has made working with semi-structured data a cinch! In this blog, I’ll walk through how...

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[![Tutorial: Dynamically Changing SQL Queries Utilizing Alteryx Analytic Apps](https://godatadrive.com/hubfs/sql%20alteryx%20tutorial-1.png) ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/tutorial-dynamically-changing-sql-queries-using-alteryx-analytic-apps)

#### [Dynamically Change SQL Queries Using Alteryx Analytic Apps](https://godatadrive.com/blog/tutorial-dynamically-changing-sql-queries-using-alteryx-analytic-apps)

![Picture of Tommy Ranney](https://godatadrive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/tommy-3.png?width=30&name=tommy-3.png) [Tommy Ranney](https://godatadrive.com/blog/author/tommy-ranney): Sep 7, 2021

As analysts, we frequently find ourselves being asked to do basic data pulls from databases...

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