September's jobless rate hits 9.8%. "So what?" says the Biz Intel Guru. Go deep into today's report with his updated unemployment dashboard

October 2, 2009

Averages have their place, but the smart money knows that insights are often buried deep in data. Check out this detailed dashboard for valuable insights that you won’t see on TV or read in the papers.

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Promising New Visualization Developer's Took Kit

September 22, 2009

Of all the open source developer visualization tool kits I’ve seen so far, the one I stumbled upon today (thanks Moritz Stefaner), named Protovis, seems the most practical and easy to use. Protovis comes from Stanford’s visualization group, with the help of Jeff Heer and Michael Bostock.

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Wonderfully funny hand-drawn graphs about sleep problems in NYTimes

September 15, 2009

Please take some time to check out this link. It’s a lot of fun, insightful, and eye-grabbing, and there are a bunch of these beautiful, hand-drawn diagrams and charts.

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Interactive view (ala Touchgraph) of how each news story is related

September 8, 2009

A short summary about Slate’s fun and useful info viz tool about the News, named newsdots.

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The Best Insights into U.S. unemployment, revealed in this Award Winning Dashboard

August 31, 2009

What happens when you combine the Business Intelligence Guru’s mastery of information visualization and analytics with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment data? You get the most insightful, award-winning look at U.S. Unemployment you have ever seen on one page.

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The Best Insights into U.S. unemployment, revealed in this Dashboard

August 31, 2009

What happens when you combine the Business Intelligence Guru’s mastery of information visualization and analytics with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment data? You get the most insightful look at U.S. Unemployment you have ever seen on one page.

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Stunning new software for geovisual analytics

July 22, 2009

I came across an exciting and novel piece of visualization software this morning and wanted to share it with the group. What’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’d see in jmp, [...]

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Top 5 tips for beginners on twitter

July 21, 2009

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Do you know the simplest, yet most overlooked lesson of Business Intelligence?

July 16, 2009

Below is a data set with 4 groupings of data and 2 columns for each grouping. The summary statistics–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 [...]

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Bar chart with a non-zero baseline? "Never"! says Biz Intel Guru. Here's why…

July 13, 2009

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.

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