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title: How Chick-fil-A and The Home Depot are Boosting Data Analysis
description: Through utilizing popular data analysis software program, Tableau, companies like The Home Depot and Chick-fil-A are implementing powerful initiatives to boost and streamline company-wide organizational practices.
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# [How Chick-fil-A and The Home Depot are Boosting Data Analysis](https://connect.regencycenters.com/blog/how-chick-fil-a-and-the-home-depot-are-boosting-data-analysis)

 Written by [Regency Centers](https://connect.regencycenters.com/blog/author/regency-centers) | Feb 7

When it comes to the utilization of data analytics, everyone is stepping up their game. With [Google](http://www.google.com), [Uber](http://www.uber.com), [Airbnb](http://www.airbnb.com) and [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com) setting the tone for organized business practices through the powerful use of data analysis, others like [Chick-fil-A](https://www.chick-fil-a.com/) and [Home Depot](https://www.homedepot.com/), in particular, are following suit. At last month’s [National Retail Federation](https://nrf.com/) 2019 Big Show, Chick-fil-A lead analyst Karen Hinson spoke to an increase in overall company efficiency with a direct correlation to the use of data analysis software program [Tableau](https://www.tableau.com/), which for them, streamlines documents including financial information per restaurant and region, swiftly builds annual reports in a fraction of the time it used to take, and assists greatly with long lines, store rooms, and stocking initiatives.

“In a world where everyone has access to the same data, it balances power. But in the real world, one business often has more or superior information than another, and whenever that happens, the scales are tipped in their favor,” said Hinson, according to [BizTech](https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2019/01/nrf-2019-chick-fil-and-home-depot-make-most-data-visualization). “Even fast-food chains can leverage data to get ahead.”

As for The Home Depot, the company’s recent acquisition of [Blinds.com](https://www.blinds.com/) created a greater need for a more robust Tableau environment for its data to result in more streamlined (and risk-preventative) shipping and handling initiatives, particularly when it comes to “remakes,” or the need to remake a product that had shipped to customers either damaged or with incorrect dimensions. “Remakes can cost upward of 6 percent of top-line revenue,” said Chase Zieman, director of analytics and data science for [Global Custom Commerce](https://careers.homedepot.com/globalcustomcommerce/),” according to BizTech. "So anything we can do to prevent that from happening is powerful for the business.”

Learn more about Tableau [here](https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2019/01/nrf-2019-chick-fil-and-home-depot-make-most-data-visualization).

Photo credit: [The Home Depot](https://www.homedepot.com/)

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