Why Big Data is a Big Deal for Sales: New Infographic
Earlier this week we released a survey, 2012 Impact of Big Data on Sales Performance, from our partner research firm…
NYPD and Microsoft Create a Next Generation Law Enforcement Big Data Solution
With an emphasis on surveillance, evidence, and reporting, law enforcement is an extremely data-intensive field and the New York City…
Big Data, Good and Evil
As I get involved more and more in the world of Big Data, I find myself reflecting upon wh As…
Analyzing Olympic Success by Country with Data Visualization
National pride: Historically, the most powerful of motivating and unifying forces. Throughout time, and across enumerate societies, populaces have strived…
A Strategic Mistake With Big Data
Companies are scrambling today to understand what big data is and what they should do with it. Many have also…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine!For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: Step Into the…
How Much Big Data is Too Much?
With storage costs plummeting and sophisticated software approaches to mining Big Data, it appears that it is increasingly cost effective…
The 8 Laws of Dashboard Design: This Is Not an 80’s Rave
There is a right balance to strike between creating beautiful dashboards and creating informative dashboards. Many of the rules of…
The Environmental Performance Index, Visualized with R
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. Yale University hosts…
Guns, States, and Death (Illustrated Comments on Aurora)
Surfing the web soon after the July 19th massacre in Colorado yielded two geovisualizations that touched, in part or in…
