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I was reading my boss’s blog post yesterday about the CNN Money charts that include a red or green stripe to indicate if the market has gone up or down over each monthly period. I wanted to recreate the graph, but knew Silverlight would be a time-consuming process, and would require quite a bit...
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Kyle Schadt
on Thu, Jul 29 2010
Filed under: Excel, Reporting, Analytics, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot, Infographics, Economics, Education
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I was reading the news this morning came across the headline Market will ‘drift for the rest of the summer’ . The article is basically about the market now through August that because of vacations, the market really doesn’t do much. I found the chart easy to understand but...
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Sometimes a tradition bar chart doesn’t give you everything you need to know to be able to compare the facts. A study released by the Environmental Law Institute, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, shows that the federal government has provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil...
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A good colleague of mine over at Microsoft, Bruno Aziza , gave me a call on a Sunday night to discuss Extended Results partnering with Microsoft on the development of a World Cup Social Media Analytics web page. Bruno chose us because we have technologies to capture the social conversation...
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Patrick Husting
on Thu, Jun 10 2010
Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, Cool Site, Marketing, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Random Thoughts, Business Intelligence, BLOG, SilverLight, Infographics, Data Mining, C#, Social Media Analytics, Office 2010, World Cup
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Nice infographic on Facebooks privacy policy over the last 5 years. You have to click through the years on the right if you are using Internet Explorer. Pretty interesting. Source: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
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Below is an article written by a customer of ours that is using our PushBI mobile business intelligence solution to provide key performance indicators to the Executive Team members for a community college district. “We have also deployed inFORM on mobile phones,” said Inciong. “Using an application called...
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We offer a mobile business intelligence solution called PushBI that allows you to take the business metrics that you care about with you anywhere and anytime. So we are always tracking the latest numbers on which mobile platforms we need to be building for. This report was just released...
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WOW, this chart says it all in regards to Netbooks. I owned one and just hated it. I actually picked up an iPad and am really enjoying it as my Netbook replacement. There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy...
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From Bruno I’m looking forward to seeing you all at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas, April 12-14. Microsoft will have a booth at the event, as well as a great customer presentation on Monday during lunch (I’d like invite you all to attend!). Business Intelligence often is...
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Great article comparing the U.S. population to Facebook population. Facebook’s official company statistics outline the breakdown of the sites over 400 million active users . While the site points out about 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States, it doesn’t dive deeper into the U.S. numbers...
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Good to see there is some action in the market Qlik Technologies Inc., the provider of the QlikView business intelligence software, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering intended to raise as much as $100 million. The company...
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I was reading an economic blog this morning on Ontario Canada economic issues. They have bigger issues that California and a much smaller population. Interesting.. Anyway, I really like the presentations on the charts. I’m all about visualizations these days. Source...
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There is a good article over at Spiegel on the shipping industry and the downturn of the economic issues they are suffering. I was reading the article and found that they did a nice job of displaying the data into an infographic. Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,685207...
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Nice article on iPhone jumping into the gaming market and the percent of business it does. Year over Year growth is impressive and makes me wonder what FaceBook does. Anyway, they look to be using Excel Charting in their article. Source: http://gizmodo.com/5499467/apple-invades-the-game-market
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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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David Lee Roth should be the new CFO at Microsoft or really any major company these days. Read this article on how he used a little statement inside their contracts to determine if the vendor they hired actually read the contract. Just awesome… http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/143/made...
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from my buddy Bruno Aziza at Microsoft. How will we make decisions in the future? Bruno Aziza, Worldwide Lead Strategist for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence group culled the wisdom of the crowd to help him peer into the future. A little less than a month ago, I asked people via multiple networks...
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Extended Results Launch Invite - BI Radio & Webinar Education Series: Jan. 20th - Building A Culture of Performance | Analytical Paradox & User Centricity WELCOME TO THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE UNTAPPED INSIGHTS EDUCATIONAL SERIES! Companies of all sizes will benefit from this monthly interactive...