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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. Kind of bums me out seeing how the United States...
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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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Thu, Jun 10 2010
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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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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 Extractor solution we have that tracks keywords...
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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 a 3D layout of a store footprint. Then...
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Patrick Husting
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Thu, Jun 3 2010
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Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, SharePoint, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Dashboards, C#, Office 2010, Retail
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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. With a lot of the mobile business intelligence...
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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.