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 it’s a manually intensive process and does not recalculate automatically as needed. Perfect candidate for […]

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 other words, you’ve got analytics in place, but no geospatial data or components – how […]

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 about the effective display of information; it should be an example of itself. Dr. Tufte’s […]

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 the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, based in part on existing client demand, but largely on […]

#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 on their own. e.g. Add some data to a report. BI practitioners can then focus […]

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 cloud, magic elves create software that works automagically. Oooo … Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. Seriously […]

Inexpensive iPad holder – less than $5

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: It’s an Office Depot Plate Holder, Clear Item # 544474

Resetting "Windows XP Mode" to initial settings

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 using it for anything […]