A Strategic Mistake With Big Data
Companies are scrambling today to understand what big data is and what they should do with it. Many have also…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine!For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: Step Into the…
How Much Big Data is Too Much?
With storage costs plummeting and sophisticated software approaches to mining Big Data, it appears that it is increasingly cost effective…
The 8 Laws of Dashboard Design: This Is Not an 80’s Rave
There is a right balance to strike between creating beautiful dashboards and creating informative dashboards. Many of the rules of…
The Environmental Performance Index, Visualized with R
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. Yale University hosts…
Guns, States, and Death (Illustrated Comments on Aurora)
Surfing the web soon after the July 19th massacre in Colorado yielded two geovisualizations that touched, in part or in…
Tweets Per Day Analysis
This is another awesome tool “Twitter Venn” from Jeff Clerk. This is another awesome tool “Twitter Venn” from Jeff…
Ya Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees
I was talking with a doctor on the train the other day who was complaining about the current state of…
Big Data: Are You Ready for Multimedia Information Systems?
If you take a look at Enterprise Information Systems that are currently in use, you will notice that they are…
Twitter Words Association Analysis
Recently I came across Twitter Spectrum tool from Jeff Clerk. This tool is modified version of News Spectrum tool.Here you…