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State of Illinois and their financial issues - InfoGraphic

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...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 5:57 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Article, Visualization, Infographics

Tracking the Nation’s Bank Failures InfoGraphic

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...

Published Fri, Mar 5 2010 6:36 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Maps, Geospatial, Infographics

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple's 25%

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...

Published Thu, Mar 4 2010 6:33 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Article, Visualization, Infographics

Investment Return Assumptions - Pensions and Benefits

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...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

Waste Management and Recycling InfoGraphic

This is a great example of using InfoGraphics to present information more clearer. PDF: UNEP GEO Data Portal -- Basic Facts Posters - Waste Management

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 8:11 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

Great Infographic of what a Trillion dollars looks like

This is a wonderful infrographic that visually displays what a trillion dollars actually looks like. A trillion here and a trillion there doesnâ€™t sound all that bad. But if you put it into the following visual perspective, you get...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 6:03 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Visualization, Infographics

ClustrMaps for insidemsftbi.com blog

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.

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 7:32 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Visualization, BLOG, Maps, Geospatial

Reactive, Silverlight, and Web Services (Oh my!)

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...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 4:41 PM by mjwilson

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Rx, Reactive Extensions, C#

Excel Services 2010 â€“ Iâ€™m quite impressed!

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...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 4:22 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Visualization, Business Intelligence

Better looking charts in Excel 2007/2010

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...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 8:50 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence

Extended Outlook Press Release around the web

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...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 9:17 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Outlook

What if we changed the delivery method for reporting and dashboards

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...

Published Mon, Nov 9 2009 3:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Office 12, Dasbboards, Visualization, Office 14, Business Intelligence, Outlook

PushBI 2.0 Released! Desktop and Mobile Business Intelligence

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! ...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2009 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, PushBI, Visualization, Mobile

Getting ready for my New York trip to present â€œPersonalized Business Intelligenceâ€

Iâ€™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 â€œPersonalized Business Intelligenceâ€ and showing...

Published Thu, Oct 8 2009 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Office 12, Excel, Dasbboards, Marketing, Performance Management, Analytics, Screenshots, Conference, Extended Analytics, PushBI, Scenario, Visualization, Mobile, Office 14

Lightweight data exploration in Excel

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 didnâ€™t use data bars in Excel 2007 but it is a neat example of using functions. http://www.juiceanalytics...

Published Wed, Aug 12 2009 6:02 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Excel, Tips, UI/UX, Visualization

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