BI Dashboard for the Super Bowl
Want to see a cool example of data visualization? This case study video that shows how the Tampa Police Department…
The Argument For & Against Map/Reduce
The last 24 months has seen the introduction of Map/Reduce functionality into the data processing arena in various forms. Map/Reduce…
Google Squared a bit wobbly
Google Labs has just released Google Squared. Unlike a Google web search which returns an unstructured list of web pages,…
Google Wave – The Future of Email and Web is Here
This is a follow up on my previous post about Google. If you’re curious about how the web and our…
Wordtree for Visual Text Exploration
Analytics can be all about having the right tool for the job. When your data is text, traditional analysis tools…
Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!
As I mentioned in the previous post, SAP launched the new BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated product today. You can try out…
#9: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:It doesn’t have to…
What a real flu pandemic looks like
Junk Charts has a neat example of what we would today call a Trellis or Lattice chart. Found in an…
Breaking Free of the One-Page Dashboard Rule
Conventional wisdom says that an executive dashboard must fit on a single page or screen. The argument hinges on a…
Twitter Analytics : Which usage behavior attracts many followers?
This is the first part of a series of posts where Data Mining and Text Mining will be applied to…