Thanks to Tom Mackay, principal solution architect at QlikTech, I recently came upon the article “Seven Dirty Secrets of Data Visualisation,” by programmer Nate Agrin and data…
A nighttime murder took place in 1991 in Linwood, California. Half a dozen teenaged eyewitnesses picked a man out of a lineup and he was eventually convicted.…
The concept of information overload is familiar to anyone reading this blog. But I recently watched the December, 2012 TEDxUtrecht video, “From Information to Understanding–Solving the Small…
I recently read The Art of Immersion by self-described digital anthropologist Frank Rose – a book about how the Internet is changing storytelling. I recently read The…
Thanks to inputs from more than a dozen BI experts at QlikTech, during the last couple of weeks I’ve written several articles about potholes in the road…
You don’t want to be an elephant if you’re a BI (business intelligence) project. Nothing against elephants – they are beautiful creatures, the largest land animals on…
At a time when the UK is engulfed in Olympics excitement, it’s easy to overlook other items on the news agenda. But recent reports on the state…
Sometimes it’s good to step out of one’s normal activities just to see what ideas get sparked or unexpected connections you make. Last week I went to…
“I think there’s a sense that many of us have that the great age of exploration on earth is over. That for the next generation they’re going…
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) recently published the “2012 issue 1” edition of its quarterly journal, “Technology Forecast.” This issue is chock full of perspectives and case studies about…
