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QlikView is an amazing product. I say this as an end user and implementor for the past 5 years.

A versatile data warehouse with multi-billion-row capacity and incredible speed.
A BI front end for report generation, interactive analysis, dashboard design.
Complemented by a platform for distributing data securely to customers, suppliers, contractors, etc.
End-user applications are intuitive and have [...]

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I saw this video last week and I have been wondering what makes it so powerful. Authenticity. Just the process, done as it has been done for a long time by the men in the video. No sound track. No deep sonorous voiceover. It is like a video of a hurricane–documenting what is independent of [...]

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Data visualization tools such as Swarm are crucial to sifting through the hordes of detritus on Digg. Because of these tools, Digg was able to harness the collective intelligence of its users and serve up speedy results that, in this case, bested Google’s specialized algorithm.

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Use the Google Maps interface with your own images through Maplib.net. Via O’Reilly Radar.

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Flickr has assembled stats on the cameras used over time. Take a look at the stats page for Canon cameras. And some of the photos from the number one camera. Nice shot. Via Boing Boing.

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Microsoft said it is designing a 270TB multinode data warehouse for a foreign government that it declined to identify. The software vendor is also working on a 162TB single-node installation for its own marketing department.

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Maps found here. Via information aesthetics.

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This recent Slashdot article resurrected ideas about the mind’s ability to detect change in familiar systems, even very complicated ones. Slashdot links to an IBM developerWorks article.
If you want to create a soundscape from a network, there is the Peep toolkit. In their examples the background network is a babbling brook and key actions are [...]

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Press release from FortiusOne masquerading as an article on InformationWeek. Their product in action.

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