Winner of the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons…
Rethinking BI: 3 Big New Old Ideas
The impact of new BI architectures on the BI processLast year, I presented at dozens of conferences, explaining the big…
A Better Way to Fuel Analytical Needs
We have reached a tipping point sometime in the last few years when analytics is being driven by business people…
Upcoming Webinar: Real-time, Big-data Analytics
A quick heads-up that I'll be presenting another brand-new webinar on Thursday next week (November 29). In Real-time Big Data Analytics:…
The Coming Shortage of Analytic Skills
A study by Avendus Capital published recently points out skill shortage in global analytics business. According to this study, by…
Tableau Thrives in Providing Visual Discovery for Business Analytics
Tableau Software is growing fast. Tableau has taken a “land and expand” strategy that drives what they call the democratization of…
Great Visualization of One Hour of Carbon Emissions in NYC….
Great visualization of one hour of carbon emissions in NYC. Background, here. Why this matters, here. Great visualization of one…
Quill Brings a Narrative of Insights to Business Analytics
Business analytics has become the highest ranked technology innovation, according to our benchmark research on business technology innovati Business analytics has become…
Benchmarks Can Reveal the Finance Department’s Achilles Heel
Data published in a recent infographic (www.tagetik.com/infographic) based on survey information compiled by APQC shows that the cost of finance…
2012 Presidential Elections Popular Vote
The following chart is a good example of displaying diverging data using color. We set “50%” as the neutral point…