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 and Jitterbit.
Of course, I could just buy QlikView, but what can be done for less [...]
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Low-Cost Data Analysis & Visualization: It’s Getting Better All The Time
September 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: MPP · QlikView · Tableau · Vertica · business intelligence · data warehouse · database · emerging technology · interactive analysis · visualization
Interactive Information Visualization
July 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments
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 tools for 6 years and I don’t want to do it any other way. When I [...]
Tags: QlikView · Spotfire · Tableau · business intelligence · interactive analysis · visualization
Response to the Tableau 3.0 Webinar
May 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
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 ad-hoc sets. The annotations look good and act sensibly. Generally, the new features are focused [...]
Tags: Tableau · business intelligence · data mining · interactive analysis · visualization