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Author Archives: Ron Keler
Tableau connected Medicare enrollment dashboard
Our medicare enrollment database continues to grow and now contains over 9M enrollment records from across the country. I began collecting this information almost two years ago with my colleague Josh Tapley, and we used it to produce our medicare … Continue reading
Posted in Data visualization, HTML5, Tableau
Tagged medicare dashboard, tableau
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Using Webi 4.1 SDK to get Report SQL
When SAP introduced BusinessObjects 4.0, clients who were invested in the Webi REBEAN SDK got worried. The Webi SDK had been mostly deprecated and it was not clear what is going to be the direction for those seeking programmatic ways … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, BusinessObjects 4.0, Web Intelligence
Tagged webi 4.1 sdk, webi restful sdk, webi sdk
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Nulls are evil (or at the very least mischievous)
If you have been involved in hands on database development for a while, or in any kind of BI / reporting initiative, you probably already know this. Nulls are evil (or at the very least mischievous). A null value in … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data Warehousing, SAP HANA
Tagged database design, nulls in database
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Oscars dashboard
I LOVE movies. I am fascinated by the craft of creating movies. It’s a field that combines technology and imagination in very unique ways and where science and art interact to create an amazing product (well, not always, but … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Web Intelligence
Tagged oscars dashboard, sap webi 4.1
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Signal and Noise inspired dashboard
Reading Nate Silvers’ “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t” (amazon link to book) inspired me to create this dashboard to articulate the idea of searching for signal and meaningful insights in the noise … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
Tagged Nate Silver, Signal and noise dashboard, The Signal and the Noise
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How to add animation in SAP Dashboard (Xcelsius) on Mobile
One of SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) most attractive features is animation. The way components animate in the desktop version of compiled dashboard and the ability to animate various visualizations and include animated files is key to the “sleekness” associated with so … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
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Book review: Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Recently, I have been asked by Packt Publishing to review the e-book “Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform” by Mark Walker. I found this to be a great introductory book for anyone interested to learn the basics about HANA … Continue reading
Posted in SAP HANA
Tagged Book review: Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
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Predicting the news with SAP HANA
If you knew who is dominating the news yesterday, would you be able to predict who will dominate the news tomorrow…? This is what I have set out to find out, leveraging some new data technologies available to us today… The … Continue reading
Posted in SAP HANA
Tagged Predict the news, SAP HANA predictive, SAP HANA text analysis
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H+ Chronological Timeline Chart
The google visualization API latest release this August, added a new timeline chart to the impressive and robust html5 charts already available in this free API. This chart type allows the creation of timeline charts with ease. It can be … Continue reading
Posted in Data visualization, HTML5
Tagged H+, H+ digital series, html5 timeline, timeline chart
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Setting up a single report hyperlink in an SAP dashboard that works on desktop and on mobile
As of SAP BI 4.0 SP7, there are still two different APIs for opening reports over URL through linking on mobile and on desktop. The desktop API is the true and tried openDoc API that has been around for many … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
Tagged SAP Mobile dashboard report link
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