Friday, May 04, 2012
MicroStrategy is currently accepting entries for our Best Cloud Personal Dashboard Contest. Entries will be judged on creativity, clarity, usefulness, and content.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Organizations already have mountains of information, and more is coming every day from new data sources, more rapid updates and higher volume from traditional existing sources.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Business intelligence analyst Wayne Kernochan, of Infostructure Associates, says it's a shame exploratory data analysis (EDA) doesn’t get more attention from enterprises looking to increase their competitive edge.
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Monday, April 09, 2012
Mapping time has long been an interest of cartographers. Visualizing historical events in a timeline or chart or diagram is an effective way to show the rise and fall of empires and states, religious history, and important human and natural occurrences.
Watch how data visualization has evolved from ancient times to the modern era.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Stamen maps, the second stage of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge has just been released for public use.
This installment consists of three beautifully intricate mapping styles, which use OpenStreetMap data to display any area of the world in a new and highly stylized layout.
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Monday, April 02, 2012
Ever wonder why infographics and data visualization have become so popular over the last year or two? Here is a quick overview of a few of the reasons why visualization is important, highlighted with an infographic by J6Design.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Obama administration announced on Thursday it will invest $200 million to research new technologies to manage and sift through large volumes of digital data.
The administration said the investments could lead to breakthroughs in science, engineering, healthcare and national security.
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, compared the initiative to past government investments that led to advances in computing and the creation of the Internet.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
While Leaders and Niche Players abound in Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence, only two companies placed in the Challenger category and Gartner didn't name any vendors as Visionaries. What gives?
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Big Data, faster infrastructure, falling costs, mobility and social media - CIOs say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Google shared details Wednesday about Google Big Query, a cloud-based service that promises to bring the search giant's immense compute power and expertise with algorithms to bear on large data sets. The service is still in limited beta preview, but it promises to speed analysis of Google ad data while opening up ways to mash up and analyze huge data sets from external sources.
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