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Mountains of Molehills

by Patrick Husting, February 10, 2012

Fun infographic on media scare stories.

source: ImageThink.net

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Look!

by Ken Chow, February 2, 2012

One of the reasons I find the rise of visual analytics so fascinating is that it’s an area of technology that’s trying to better leverage human computation, rather than offload it, which has traditionally been the case.

Consider one of the progenitors of all productivity software: the humble spreadsheet. Where would we be without their [...]

Rising star business intelligence blogger, Tricia Aanderud, is on fire with her SAS BI blog posts over at http://www.bi-notes.com/author/tricia.

Her post today is quite excellent and worth reading through in detail. It’s available here at http://www.bi-notes.com/2012/02/dashboard-sas-bi-google-analytics-data. I’m cross-posted it here:

Tricia Aanderud is SAS BI evangelist, enthusiastic innovator & hired gun, pursuing design tips, programming [...]

Redundant Data

by Andy Graham, January 24, 2012

Redundant data can be both a benefit and a problem to organisations but ultimately it means we have more data to manage. Some redundancy is clearly required for backups and optimisation reasons but unknown or inconsistent redundancy is a disaster.

I would like to get some sense of the level of redundancy of data that exists [...]

I was browsing through my twitter posts and came upon this great looking social media dashboard by Intel.  It is their Social Cockpit.  Very nice looking.

source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/13/intel-social-cockpit/

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I just saw the following coming out from the good people at Gartner Research:

“The Gartner Predicts 2012 special report addresses the continuing trend toward the reduction of control IT has over the forces that affect it. As users take more control of the devices they will use, business managers are taking more control of the [...]

Geeks N’ Weasels

by Ken Chow, January 19, 2012

Anyone in a modern business environment is well aware of the tension that often exists between technical experts (IT, developers, engineers, etc.) and business experts (sales, marketing, operations, etc.). I’m no social scientist; I haven’t made a study of the origins and dynamics that give rise to this divide, but I’ll go out on a [...]

Dear readers,
I know it has been a while since my last posting, but that is a good sign; it means that the Business Intelligence industry is still alive out there, even in these uncertain times.
So, what is the occasion then? Well, if you have not guessed by the title, let me give me you another [...]

BI Mind Map

by Patrick Husting, January 13, 2012

pretty cool, check it out at http://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/business-intelligence-in-2012-82af32162f2e4e289dcdfef788ed6017

 

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