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Pulled this from the Chicago Tribune. This information graphic points out the financial issues the state of Illinois is in. What really needs to be added to this graphic is a percent of budget. Then you would have a clear pictures of the budget and the shortfall is. When you look...
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This is an excellent example of using maps and animation to get the point across on bank failures over time. Look at Washington Mutual up here in the Northwest. Crazy. I still believe JP Chase stole WAMU for the price… http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/info-Failed_Banks...
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Great analytical charts can tell an interesting story. Check out this article from Gizmodo on Free vs Paid applications from the mobile OS providers. Using the brand icons to represent the company is a great idea. http://gizmodo.com/5479298/android-app-store-is-57-free-compared-to-apples...
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Found this view today showing state pensions investment returns needed to be able to cover obligations. Boy, wouldn’t it be great to get these kinds of returns on your investments? I doubt they are actually getting them after the last several years, but I really like how they presented...
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This is a great example of using InfoGraphics to present information more clearer. PDF: UNEP GEO Data Portal -- Basic Facts Posters - Waste Management
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This is a wonderful infrographic that visually displays what a trillion dollars actually looks like. A trillion here and a trillion there doesn’t sound all that bad. But if you put it into the following visual perspective, you get a real understand the issues with the United States...
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I just love maps with an analytics layer. Here are all the visitors around the world checking out our blog. I think some of the dots out in the middle of the oceans are the most intriguing.
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OR: A simple example of how to use the Reactive Extensions with Silverlight to process responses from web services. One of the most useful tools that I have stumbled across in recent months has to be the Reactive Extensions (Rx) put out by Microsoft Labs. There are smarter people than me out there who...
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One of my business intelligence development managers came in the office to do a walk through of his project. We are embracing Excel Services quite heavily now and he showed me an example within our Extended Outlook product. The below report is showing country comparisons side...
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One thing I really like about using Excel for my business intelligence solution is the ability to create some really good looking charts (author opinion). We are all guilty of just cranking out reports using the default settings as we are just trying to get the job done, but if you spend...
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We just did a Press Release on our new Microsoft Outlook add-in that puts your reporting and analytics right into the software tool you use everyday, Microsoft Outlook. It is being carried all over the world at the moment. Pretty cool to watch. Extended Results, Inc. a leading...
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We have built a lot of dashboards and reporting portals over the years and one thing is for certain. You spend a lot of time training people on how to use the business intelligence portal, where to find dashboards and reports, and how to interact with the reports. I mean, we really...
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We released version 1.0 of our product in May of 2009 and we have already turned around version 2.0 this month of October 2009. Why so quick? The feedback and feature requests of customers and potential customers has been great! Visit www.PUSHBI.com for demo downloads of the desktop...
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I’m pretty excited to be traveling to New York this week to present at the Microsoft offices to several media and entertainment companies. We are going to be co-presenting with Microsoft on “Personalized Business Intelligence†and showing many of the recent products we have developed over...
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Found this great blog on UI/UX and they have a pretty neat example using Excel and a function for rept and drawing bars. Not sure why they didn’t use data bars in Excel 2007 but it is a neat example of using functions. http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/lightweight-data-exploration-in-excel...