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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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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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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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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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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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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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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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Great stuff, why can’t I have a BI tool that does this!
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I’m totally stuck on Infographics right now. Check out this video that gives lots of BI on the way to the center of the earth!
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I’m getting kind of tired of the same old bar and line charts, so I’ve been on the hunt for new and interesting displays. Check this one out… Don’t know if I believe the numbers or not… I wonder if these numbers are from people using Mint.com as their money store. http://www...
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It is not to often you can find a good looking pie-chart, but here is a great example from the New York times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/the-american-diet-34-gigabytes-a-day/
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Bryan in our office forwarded me this web site that shows political contributions by industry/company. Check it out, presented very clearly and easy to understand. Roll over a company name to see a break out of their lobbyist efforts. http://www.goodguide.com/contributions#sector=Computer...