Looking at Trees to Understand the Forest
David Simon (of The Wire fame) has sucked me into another brilliant…
Stunning Business Intelligence Visualizations… from 1830
FastCompany has a great article this week on the results of the…
Visualizing droughts with R
Physicist and weather scientist Joe Wheatley used R to design and create…
Factoids, Stories and Insights
Recently, The Economist had a special report titled “Data, data everywhere“. The…
The Surgeon, the Survey and Survival
Statistical analysis is a venerable approach in medical research. It is one…
IRS Internal Migration Data and Housing Bubble
Earlier this week, I suggested a potential business application of IRS’s internal…
Data Visualization: Why (1 of 2)
Between business requests and breathless vendors, I am getting caught up in…
Dave Wells’ prescription for the incurious
Former TDWI education director Dave Wells keeps running into users whose BI…
Find yourself a safer place to swim or fish in the Bay Area
Another example of a web dashboard built using R comes from John…