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		<title>Old Spice Guy&#039;s popularity on Twitter charted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charting the Old Spice Guys popularity on Twitter]]></description>
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		<title>Watch as The Biz Intel Guru fixes a poorly designed WSJ graphic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch as The Biz Intel Guru fixes a poorly designed WSJ graphic]]></description>
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		<title>Have bad graphs and faulty analysis led to evidence that Amazon has fake reviewers? Read on&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The analysis of Amazon's Kindle reviews continues. The Business Intelligence Guru may have uncovered evidence of fake reviews on Amazon.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Stunning new software for geovisual analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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I came across an exciting and novel piece of visualization software this morning and wanted to share it with the group. What&#8217;s novel about the software is that it combines some of the most powerful visualization techniques in one package, with all visualizations linked to each other, kind of like what you&#8217;d see in jmp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know the simplest, yet most overlooked lesson of Business Intelligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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Below is a data set with 4 groupings of data and 2 columns for each grouping. The summary statistics&#8211;mean, variance, correlation, sum of squares, r², and linear regression line are the same for all 4 groupings of X and Y values. If we stopped our analysis here we could move forward confidently knowing that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bar graphs with a non-zero baseline? &#8220;Never&#8221;! says Biz Intel Guru. Here&#8217;s why&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Intelligence Guru has two simple rules to help prevent you from making bad bar charts. First, always start with a zero baseline. Second, never use 3D. Read on and watch as I convert a bar chart on the left into a clear, concise, honest and insightful line chart.]]></description>
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		<title>Bar chart with a non-zero baseline? &quot;Never&quot;! says Biz Intel Guru. Here&#039;s why&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Intelligence Guru has two simple rules to help prevent you from making bad bar charts. First, always start with a zero baseline. Second, never use 3D. Read on and watch as I convert a bar chart on the left into a clear, concise, honest and insightful line chart.]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald’s knows how to sell fast food, but they don’t know how to do info viz.</title>
		<link>http://bzintelguru.com/featured/mcdonalds-failed-first-try-at-using-incell-bar-charts-for-nutrition-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an info viz junkie I was excited to see McDonalds using incell bar charts on their food wrappers. I've attached an image of one off of a cheeseburger wrapper.
As a Stephen Few fan, however, I know that a key ingredient to high quality info viz is simplicity--it's got to be easy to understand. To that end, what in the world does the dashed vertical line spanning calories through sodium represent? It looks like it's set to 33%, but why? Is that some magic number in the world of nutrition? Is 33% "crossing the line" for a single item on their menu? There's ample room for an explanation of the reference line on the wrapper, but none is provided.]]></description>
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		<title>McDonaldâ€™s knows how to sell fast food, but they donâ€™t know how to do info viz.</title>
		<link>http://bzintelguru.com/featured/mcdonalds-failed-first-try-at-using-incell-bar-charts-for-nutrition-information-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Munoz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an info viz junkie I was excited to see McDonalds using incell bar charts on their food wrappers. I've attached an image of one off of a cheeseburger wrapper.
As a Stephen Few fan, however, I know that a key ingredient to high quality info viz is simplicity--it's got to be easy to understand. To that end, what in the world does the dashed vertical line spanning calories through sodium represent? It looks like it's set to 33%, but why? Is that some magic number in the world of nutrition? Is 33% "crossing the line" for a single item on their menu? There's ample room for an explanation of the reference line on the wrapper, but none is provided.]]></description>
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