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The Anatomy of a Twitter Conversation, Visualized with R

February 6, 2012 by David Smith
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Each new participant in the conversation is listed on the vertical axis - those Twitter users with several dots in their row were active participants. You can see the conversation is quite "bursty": active periods of replies and retweets punctuated by short pauses. [read more]

The Data Analytics of Super Bowl Commercials

February 6, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Well, Super Bowl Sunday has come and gone. As a friend said on Facebook last night, “You can now return to your regular scheduled life.” Not so fast. The big game is big business. Just check out these stats: 21 of the 45 of the most-watched network TV broadcasts of all time have been Super Bowls. (Source: American Spectator) The total... [read more]

R Chart featured in Facebook IPO

February 2, 2012 by David Smith
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Page 7 of Facebook's 213-page S-1 filing for their record-breaking IPO includes this chart, under the headline: "Our Mission: To make the world more open and connected". [read more]

Great Video on How Econometricians Think About Talent Data

January 31, 2012 by Jeremy Shapiro
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Robert Yerex

Robert Yerex is one of the best labor-oriented econometrics folks in non-academic circles right now. He presented at Wolfram’s technology conference last year on how he presents data to people. If you love talent data (particularly from a macro perspective), this is a great 24 minutes spent. [read more]

SAS BI Dashboard: Google Analytics Dashboard Kicked Up a Notch

January 23, 2012 by Tricia Aanderud
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In SAS 9.3, SAS introduced the Spark Table indicators for the SAS BI Dashboard. There are essentially three steps to creating a this indicator: prepare the data, build the range (colored arrows), and build the spark table. Here’s a quick overview of the process. [read more]

Easier Software Drives Data-Driven Decision Making

January 10, 2012 by Erica Driver
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In a study conducted in October, 2011 for the QlikTech team in the UK by YouGov, we found that British white collar workers are held back from realizing their full potential in a data-driven workplace. YouGov conducted an online [read more]

Bing Has The Answer

January 7, 2012 by Matthew Hurst
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Initially, web search engines were restricted to returning results which were simple pointers to web pages. Modern search engines often include an 'answer' on the first page. This might be a block of information about movies (if you searched for movies) or a small map with some restaurant information. Bing and Google both present this... [read more]

How To Automate Google Analytics Reporting

January 2, 2012 by Eric Siu ✓
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GA Data Grabber is a powerful Analytics tool used in Excel for Windows or Mac – it pulls the data directly from Google Analytics. There’s also a Google AdWords/Bing adCenter version for people that want to have paid search reports. The main benefit is really freeing up your time to do other productive tasks – there are so many ways to use it that it makes my head spin just thinking about it. [read more]

Study Illuminates 2012 Plans for BI and Tablets

December 31, 2011 by Erica Driver
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Overall, survey respondents expect technology spending to increase in 2012. Fifty-six percent of survey respondents said their companies planned to increase tech spending in the coming year, up from 46% two years ago. In contrast, just 16% of respondents think their companies will cut IT budgets in 2012. A couple of findings are particularly relevant to people involved in BI deployments... [read more]

Alberto’s Business Analytics Predictions for 2012

December 28, 2011 by Alberto Roldan
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As business analytics projects proved their measurable value within companies, I believe that in 2012 we will continue to see a mathematical increase in the number of companies that use business analytics. My predictions for 2012 are not in order of importance. [read more]

Visualizing Reuters Editorial Investment

December 26, 2011 by Matthew Hurst
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"The process is to crawl Reuters, extract the attribution of each article (writers and editors) and extract the mention of country names. Then, using gephi, to visualize the relationships, thus - in this case - showing which editors are associated with the mention of which countries." [read more]

December 2011 issue of the R Journal: An overview

December 20, 2011 by David Smith
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"The December 2011 issue of the R Journal is now available for download. Three times a year, the open-access journal of the R project publishes peer-reviewed articles on research and applications of R and R packages. As of the latest issue, all articles are published under a Creative Commons license, making them accessible for translation, academic and commercial uses with attribution." [read more]

How to Use Pivot Tables to Mine Your Data

December 19, 2011 by Jay Arthur
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Here is a detailed example of using Pivot Tables to mine your data. These examples use Excel along with QI Macros for Excel. [read more]

Definitive Report on Decision Management Systems Platforms coming in 2012

December 16, 2011 by James Taylor
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"At Decision Management Solutions we believe that the market is ready for a definitive report on platform technologies suitable for building decision management systems. The report will present the business case for Decision Management Systems and describe the technology stack for Decision Management Systems." [read more]

Data Visualization in 4D: Sculpture and a Musical Score

December 4, 2011 by Erica Driver
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I just watched an intriguing four-minute TED video called “Nathalie Miebach: Art Made of Storms.” It's a great example of science inspiring art. Nathalie Miebach is a sculptor whose work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. She translates scientific data related to... [read more]

Dashboard Gauges: Indulgence with Restraint

December 1, 2011 by Juice Analytics
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"When it comes to business dashboards, the gauge chart is often a case of indulgence without restraint. It can be equal parts waste of valuable pixels, low information, and visually deceptive. It would be a lot smarter to use a bullet chart — but who wants to pick the the fruit plate for desert?" [read more]