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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Why Data Modeling Fall Sideways?
One of the most surprising aspects I have come to expect during the years of data integration and warehousing consulting is how little data modeling is actually being practiced in this field. While it is hard to find a database … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data Warehousing, Universe Design
Tagged BI SDLC, Data modeling, data warehousing
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Data Visualization Lesson from 6 Years Old
“Daddy, you have a lot of audio, not a lot of photos, a little more apps then photos, and you have free space more than the photos and apps, but not as much as the audio”. That is what my … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large
Tagged Charts, Data Visualization, Design, Graphs, Tables
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How I got flash to run on my iPad and iPhone
Like so many others, I really like my iPhone and my iPad, but I get very annoyed when I try to browse to a web site that is flash based, or try to even pull up some of my blog … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Xcelsius
Tagged iPad, iPhone, run flash on iOS, run flash on iPad, run flash on iPhone, run swf on iOS, Xcelsius on iOS
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Defuse the tension between designers and technologists – educate on your BI tools capabilities upfront
When working with designers, or users who are interested in designing their dashboards, you will undoubtedly run into tensions between what “should be” and what “can be”. While you can argue that with software there are really no limitations, and … Continue reading
Good to Great Dashboard
In his famous book “Good to Great”, Jim Collins describes his research into eleven great companies that presented consistent outstanding results, compared to other companies that were in seemingly similar situation, but failed to achieve sustainable greatness. Collins describes the … Continue reading
Scale matters
Charts have become an invaluable way to communicate information and articulate data. Charts help us not just convey data, but to also “tell a story”. With Charts, we can highlight certain points and help the people who need to act … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Xcelsius
Tagged Charts, Charts Scale, Information that can't be ignored, Xcelsius Charts
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Broken windows theory applied to BI – clean up your reports so they don’t end up in the trash
The broken windows theory is a social sciences theory. It claims that maintaining the form of the environment prevents crime and social disorder. Malcolm Gladwell discusses this theory in his book The Tipping Point and examines how it was used … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large
Tagged BI Design, Broken windows
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Spin the bike wheel and track your performance
While working out at the gym today, I thought up this little Xcelsius dashboard to track biking performance. While the hardware components needed are a bit out of reach for me right now, the illustration below would have to suffice … Continue reading
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Tagged Xcelsius
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Automatically Close Xcelsius Dashboard When User Is Idle
A colleague approached me the other day with a requirement to “Logoff” users when they have not been active in an Xcelsius dashboard for a certain amount of time. I am sure there are many approaches and ways to accommodate … Continue reading
Posted in Xcelsius
Tagged EIC, javascript, Xcelsius
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