Stunning Business Intelligence Visualizations… from 1830
FastCompany has a great article this week on the results of the 1830 census, and the hand-made graphics (“BI –2.0”?)…
Futuristic BI: Are We Smart Enough?
Came across this stunning TED video that demonstrates scientific data in both 3-D and audio. It’s not only functional but…
Visualizing droughts with R
Physicist and weather scientist Joe Wheatley used R to design and create a useful visual representation of how drought affects…
Tim Berners-Lee With an Update on Open Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, comes back to TED a year after his call for…
How Lyza stole the show at TDWI Las Vegas
Stealth buzz: how Lyza stole the show Lyzasoft wasn’t among the 38 exhibitors in TDWI’s Las Vegas exhibit hall. They…
Factoids, Stories and Insights
Recently, The Economist had a special report titled “Data, data everywhere“. The report examines the rapid increase in data volumes…
The Surgeon, the Survey and Survival
Statistical analysis is a venerable approach in medical research. It is one way to find causes of conditions that are…
Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict…
Socializing
I recently tweeted an observation of David Weinberger's on how our language has shifted: Over the past decade, we’ve gone…
Sleep patterns: Not too complicated (at least for me)
Last year, when I was still at BusinessWeek, I checked out Zeo, the sleep-monitoring tool. I was thinking about doing…