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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. Nice job guys, great view! Source...
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You can drill down to the details of every company on the list. When you drill down to our company, you can see our Trophy Case on where we rank in IT Services and in Seattle. We are in the TOP 50 for IT Services and TOP 15 for the Seattle area. That is just awesome! BTW, I founded...
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I was pouring through the list of top IT Services and Software companies in the Inc 500|5000 to see who was the TOP Business Intelligence company. Well guess what I found out?! We are the ONLY business intelligence focused company within IT Services which makes us #1 on the Inc. 500...
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I’m very excited to announce that we made the Inc. Magazine Top 500|5000 for the fastest growing companies of 2010 at position 525! We were ranked the 15th fastest growing company in the Seattle area too! I started Extended Results in January 2006 and the last 3 years of sales...
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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 trend among hedge funds and Wall Street firms,...
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I was reading TechFlash this morning and enjoyed a short article on RedFin and the use of Agent sales in a market. What a great way to use special insight from a good business intelligence solution. Here's a good read from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman this morning, focusing on what the Seattle-based...
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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 did we do it? We processed 6 months of data into...
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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
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Thu, Jul 29 2010
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Filed under: Excel, Reporting, Analytics, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot, Infographics, Economics, Education
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Linking over to a good article on PowerPivot and Analysis Services As Microsoft PowerPivot is gaining more popularity and exposure, BI professionals ask more and more questions about PowerPivot’s role in the organization in trying to understand what value the new in-memory BI solution from Microsoft...
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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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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.flowingdata.com/walmart/
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Just clicking through the links and noticed we are highlighted on the Microsoft BI blog site. Very cool. http://www.microsoft.com/bi/biresources/
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This is a video that was shot in our offices highlighting our social media analytics solution and services. You can find a link to the solution at http://extendedresults.com/worldcup
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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...