On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 I had the privilege of presenting at the Business Intelligence Roundtable. The topic was Incorporating Geospatial Data in your Analytics.
This session was a general purpose overview on all how to incorporate mapping data into your analytic systems. In other words, you've got analytics in place, but no geospatial data or components ...
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In his book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition, Edward Tufte describes how he wanted to make the book, self-exemplifying. In other words, the book should use the techniques about the effective display of information to describe techniques about the ...
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Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project:
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Slides are linked here.
Topic was "late-breaking news from the MS BI Conference"
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Well, the grandiose plan was to blog each session as they happened, but between keeping my existing clients happy and keeping up with all the events of TechEd/MSBIC, that did not happen.
I was really on the fence about attending the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, based in part on existing client demand, but largely on the ...
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Ted KummertMS Uses BI to ship, track defects.
Recollection of BI Conference 2008 - the fairy tale.
Managed self-service business intelligence.
State of BI today
20% have BI.
There are many things that end users should be able to solve on their own. e.g. Add some data to a report.
BI practitioners can then focus on strategic development and implementations.
Familiar tools
Collaboration
Managed
Scenario ...
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I am keeping these brief on purpose - just my impressions in 5 sentences or less (I hope).
Bob Muglia
Cloud
Apparently there is this thing called the cloud . . . Say it: Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. In the cloud, magic elves create software that works automagically. Oooo ... Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud.
Seriously though, this is a ...
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I just needed a temporary solution to hold my iPad at my desk. It's worked out pretty well. Thought I'd post the tip:
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Under Windows 7 64-bit ultimate edition, I've had the need to reset my "Windows XP Mode" to initial settings several times over the past few days. Initially I did this because as I used the XP virtual environment, the VHD file grew to around 10 Gig. Not huge, but I wasn't ...
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