Monthly Archives: October 2006

“The third scenario in our competition asked participants to create a visual display that would enable real estate agents to monitor what’s going on in the housing market.”

Like it says. Neat collection of maps with a global and current events focus. Including this amazing overlay of empires that have controlled the middle east and beyond since 3000 BCE. Wow.

Salesforce.com (CRM) is ramping up talk about it’s expanded AppExchange offerings. This is a good step toward the future of open, extensible platforms for business software. It takes a maverick like Benioff to show that a sucessful model can be … Continue reading →

Here is a good reference article that demystifies data warehousing with a focus on education. Includes a solid, straightforward discussion of issues and the project path.

What I can’t show you in a picture is that these colorful dots are moving and forming a beautiful musical & visual pattern.

Picked this up by looking at other Juice Analytics picks. It visualizes the patterns of cabbies in San Francisco. It’s live and shows if the cab has a passenger or not and determines the speed and more. It was built … Continue reading →

Thanks to the guys at Juice Analytics! This blog was nominated for a Juicy. Good fun. The winner in the category was information aesthetics.

It sounds like RFID is in the Trough of Disillusionment. But momentum is there. WalMart knows how powerful it will be.

Via BoingBoing. I don’t know what it is about shipping containers, they’re just cool.

“In a demonstration at the conference, Micali tapped five metrics, such as gross margin and profitability, which executives previously didn’t have access to before the BI project. “‘Pick a handful of metrics that are meaningful, [and] they will ask more … Continue reading →