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Category Archives: Interactive Analysis
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
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
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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
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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
Hans Rosling Is My Hero
I just can’t get enough of the Gapminder software, officially called Trendalyzer. The easy interface is just an enhanced scatter plot but it does the job perfectly. I think a lot of people, like me, were amazed and excited by … Continue reading
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Interactive Information Visualization
Enrico Bertini at Visuale asks how important is interactivity in information visualization? As a proponent of QlikView, Spotfire, Tableau and others, I think it’s extremely important. Interactivity is the future, it’s “make or break.” I’ve been implementing speed-of-thought interactive BI … Continue reading
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Tagged Interactive Analysis, QlikView, Spotfire, Tableau, Visualization
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Response to the Tableau 3.0 Webinar
I finally got around to watching the Tableau 3.0 webinar. I agree with their very excited presenter that Tableau 3.0 is a leap forward. The support of ad-hoc grouping of dimension elements is excellent as is the enhanced support of … Continue reading
BI Is A Social Problem — Juice Analytics Breaks It Down
My favorite part of the Juice Analytics presentation (PDF) is the rundown of the essential BI toolset and the examples they chose such as Yahoo Pipes, Baby Name Voyager and We Feel Fine. Great job!
Multi-Touch Demo
Jeff Han is going to change the world. His multi-touch interface is at the right place and the right time. Best video of it that I’ve seen.
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