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The World’s Best Countries. Great Interactive InfoGraphic

My business development manager found this great interactive graphic that plots out country comparisons on health, education, economy and politics. This is a really great comparison tool unlike anything we have seen in the marketplace. ...

Published Wed, Sep 1 2010 5:23 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Article, Visualization, Infographics

Tech M&A deals increase in Q2

I was browsing one of my favorite technology news sites for the Northwest and found a very cool like chart that is mixed with a bubble chart. This gives you a good perspective on the size of the deals compared to the number of deals for the month...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 4:54 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence

World Cup 2010 Economic Sales Productivity Infographic

I found this via Bing image search today and thought I would share it with others. These are some great analytics showing the positive and negative side of World Cup 2010. Enjoy

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 5:25 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Visualization, Infographics

Business Intelligence using Satellites

You just have to love big investment firms that can invest millions to return billions. Read this article about how hedge funds and wall street firms are using satellites to view car populations in Wal-Mart parking lots! As part of a growing...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Insight

Visual Data Explorer on Microsoft Windows Themes Downloads using LiveLabs PivotViewer

We have been doing a pilot project with the Windows Analytics group analyzing theme downloads for Windows 7. We used SharePoint 2010 and LiveLabs Pivotviewer as the technologies to provide a data visualization explorer. How...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Data Mining, PivotViewer

CNN Money Chart Explained

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...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 5:15 AM by Kyle Schadt

Filed under: Excel, Reporting, Analytics, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot, Infographics, Economics, Education

Even CNN has some good analytical charts on the market

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. ...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Article, Visualization, Random Thoughts, SilverLight, Infographics, Economics

Energy Subsidies Black, Not Green

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...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 6:31 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Cool Site, Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club

This is a wonderful example of InfoGraphics and automation. Using time animation, creating a story with your data becomes easier and easier. Click through the following link to see the sample. Nice job. Source http://projects...

Published Thu, Jul 8 2010 9:09 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

Microsoft BI and World Cup Social Media Analytics–Great Mention!

Just clicking through the links and noticed we are highlighted on the Microsoft BI blog site. Very cool. http://www.microsoft.com/bi/biresources/

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 2:03 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Visualization, Video, Business Intelligence, BLOG, Social Media Analytics

World Cup Social Media Analytics - How We Did It #worldcup #analytics @extendedresults @microsoft

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...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 12:31 PM by Patrick Husting

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

World Cup Social Media Analytics by Extended Results #worldcup, #businessintelligence, @extendedresults

Microsoft approached us about using our Social Media BI extractor solution in a World Cup scenario. We stepped up to the plate and are in the process of building out our World Cup Social Media Analytics page. We utilize a Social Media...

Published Mon, Jun 7 2010 10:22 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Site, Visualization, Business Intelligence, World Cup

What Does Your Retail Business Intelligence Portal Look Like? #bi #sql #sharepoint #visio

We are in the process of creating a Retail Business Intelligence Experience for a customer as you can see from below. We take a very HIGH END approach to the experience and graphics when dealing with business intelligence data. Below you will see...

Published Thu, Jun 3 2010 11:42 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, SharePoint, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Dashboards, C#, Office 2010, Retail

Enterprise Business Intelligence coming to the #Apple #iPad via #ReportPad by Extended Results

We upgraded our PushBI product to support the iPad when it launched. But when playing with the iPad, it does make an excellent device for accessing existing enterprise reporting solutions from Business Objects, Microsoft, IBM and many others. ...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 11:49 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, IBM, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Apple, Mobile Business Intelligence, iPad

#Google #Android #InfoGraphic on Traction in the Mobile Market Place

This is a very impressive infographic on Google Android and it’s traction in the marketplace. I love how they use imagery to communication metrics. On one page, you basically get the state of the business.

Published Thu, May 27 2010 10:57 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Google, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

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