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Category Archives: Business Intelligence
Great Features In QlikView 11
QlikView 11 looks great. Three new features in particular are going to make great impressions: the improved Web interface (AJAX), Session Sharing, and Notes.
Posted in Business Intelligence, QlikView, Visualization
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The Myth and Mystery of Big Data
“With enough data, you can discover patterns and facts using simple counting that you can’t discover in small data using sophisticated statistical and machine learning approaches.” Link I used to assume that big data and data mining and statistics were … Continue reading
The Year in QlikView
A subtle and powerful shift happened last year. I was building a QlikView application for financials. My client and I had discussed the idea of this application a year earlier but it was impossible then. Version 8.5 had not been … Continue reading
Spotfire Unveils Holiday Shopping Guide
An example of their interactive analysis tool. The data is from Amazon Web Services but I’m pretty sure it is not connected “live” in any way. Last I checked, Spotfire loads data as a batch process.
Peter Batty Discusses One-Second Results And Geospatial Analysis
Peter Batty discusses one-second results in the world of geospatial data. The first was that if you can provide information at “the speed of thought”, or the speed of a click, this enables people to do interesting things, and work … Continue reading
Posted in Business Intelligence, Interactive Analysis
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How One-Second Results Change Everything
There’s a point where query response time is low enough that it changes the analysis game completely. This is the amount of time that a decision maker is willing to wait to get the next answer. Not the first answer, … Continue reading
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Interactive Analysis, QlikView
Tagged Data Warehouse, Interactive Analysis, QlikView
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Low-Cost Data Analysis & Visualization: It’s Getting Better All The Time
Over the weekend I have revisited Tableau, enjoyed some success with MonetDB, tried to turn MySQL into a hundred million row data warehouse, been underwhelmed with Firebird, installed Greenplum and spent many frustrated hours with Talend Open Studio, Pentaho Kettle … Continue reading
What makes QlikView so good?
I consult for QlikView and I have to agree it’s awesome. But hearing me rant about its greatness would sound like another fanboy foaming at the mouth. So I’ll let someone else, David Raab, explain why QlikView is so good. … Continue reading
TeraData Performance at KiloData Prices
What if you could turn on a massively parallel business intelligence database cluster with a few lines of code? What if you could leverage in-house and outsourced resources for computation and storage as needed? What if you could expand your … Continue reading
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Database
Tagged BI, data mining, Data Warehouse, Database, Google
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