Author Archives: Tom Huguelet
Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data
Tuesdays topic was Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data. Slide deck is posted here.
Solution to “Very strange results from MDX Query”
The solution to “Very strange results from MDX Query” It turns out that there was both a psychological component and a technical one. The sleuth who help me discover these issues was none other than my friend, former and occasionally … Continue reading
Strange results from MDX Query
I am currently working on adding forecasting capabilities to an existing customer cube. The MDX to do this is based on calculations in an existing spreadsheet model. The spreadsheet works very well in terms of modeling the business accurately, but … Continue reading
Aug 17th, 2010 – ITA BI Roundtable Materials
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 … Continue reading
self-exemplify – Dr. Edward Tufte’s seminar in Chicago July 23
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 … Continue reading
Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project
Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project:
June 15th, 2010 – ITA Roundtable slides
Slides are linked here. Topic was “late-breaking news from the MS BI Conference”
Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference Recap – Day 1
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 … Continue reading
#MSBIC Keynote
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 … Continue reading
TechEd Keynote – brief comments & impressions
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 … Continue reading