Text Analysis Explains Why Obama Wins
Scientific Text Analysis of 2012 Debates Explains why Obama’s Style May have Out-performed Romney’s Scientific Text Analysis of 2012 Debates…
Cyber Summit 2012: Big Data, Small Presentations and Rock and Roll
Last week Cyber Summit 2012: Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data took place in Banff (October 1-3). Last week Cyber…
Style your R charts like the Economist, Tableau … or XKCD
As we noted last month, the new Themes feature in ggplot2 helps you customize the design of R charts to…
Why Big Data and Business Intelligence Are Like One Direction
It’s true. But don’t despair. The sensational rise of Big Data within the reporting and analytics realm resembles an uncanny…
Why OLAP?
Why OLAP?For the first 3 quarters of my career I didn’t pay attention to Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology, everything…
3-D Animation of the Changing Antarctic Ice Sheet
Last month we shared an visualization showing the changing extent of Arctic sea-ice. This visualization by the multinational Commission for the…
McLaren Shows The Way — Telemetry For Your Business?
The McLaren Group, known for its Grand Prix racing team and iconic Formula 1 cars, announced earlier this year that it…
Data Storytelling: More Immersive and Easier on the Brain
I recently read The Art of Immersion by self-described digital anthropologist Frank Rose – a book about how the Internet…
Salesforce Struggles to Deliver on the Dream of Analytics
I was at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference this week to hear about the latest advancements from the cloud computing software giant. I was…
Dancing With Dirty Data Thanks to SAP Visual Intelligence
Here’s my entry for the SAP Ultimate Data Geek Challenge, a contest designed to “show off your inner geek and…
