I must admit I do enjoy Beck Bennett’s series of commercials for AT&T where he poses the question, “Which is better: faster or slower?” I find his deadpan approach to a variety of co-actors and situations very humorous. The question “Which is better: faster or slower?” has interesting application in today’s information and [...]
If you have ever shopped at Amazon you may have noticed a “Featured Recommendations” section that appears after your initial visit. These recommendations get automatically updated after the system notices a change in the shopping pattern of a particular member. This is real-time analytics at work. The system is using the data at [...]
BI and Social Media: How to Integrate the Two
By Nash Nath On April 22, 2013 · In Analytics and Data Visualization, Big Data, Business Intelligence
With the increasing use of social media tools like LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter for business, organizations are starting to look at different ways they can use the information gathered from these tools to create marketing strategies, new products or even improve existing products. Social business intelligence is gathering [...]
It is always best to avoid rotated text when creating data visualizations, yet this seems to be one of the most common problems I see. This might be due to the fact that tools like Microsoft Excel rotate axis labels automatically in many situations and people don’t make any adjustments to these defaults. Even Tableau, [...]
The Background
Love it or hate it, the madness is upon us. Every March, the country gets a healthy serving (or three) of College Basketball. Each year, approximately 40 million people fill out brackets for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and each year, every single one of those people swears that they picked everything perfectly. [...]
Do you remember these recent stories? On July 31, 2012 Dropbox admitted it had been hacked. (Information Week, 8/1/2012). Hackers had gained access to an employee’s account and from there were able to access LIVE usernames and passwords which could allow them to gain access to huge amounts of personal and [...]
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It is true about blogs and books suggesting line charts for time series data. In fact, when teaching data visualization at the University of Cincinnati I always reinforce to my students that time series data is best as a line chart. This is because we, as readers, typically understand time when plotted on the [...]
As a business undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati, I recently noticed an article in the Cincinnati Business Courier about P&G’s push into business intelligence and analytics. Why are CIOs of P&G, FedEx and Boeing just now beginning the push “to make business intelligence the way that business gets done”?
Business Intelligence is already a [...]
Google Trends shows the term “Business Intelligence”, as a web headline topic, has declined since 2004. In the past two years it has been surpassed by the term “Big Data”. “Business Analytics” is emerging as the term some industry thought leaders, such as Gartner and IDC, are using as the catch-all term [...]
As business travelers and Cincinnatians we have all witnessed firsthand the ever-increasing airline ticket prices from Northern Kentucky International Airport. All companies, big and small, are trying to keep down unnecessary costs. This visualization was created in Tableau Desktop in order to show how data visualization can make it easier to view trends and patterns [...]
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