I haven’t had fun with Tableau for a little while, so now I’ve had some time to create my first dashboard using Tableau 6.0 Basically,
What is Project Crescent? The Microsoft SQL Server team blog describes Project Crescent as a ‘stunning new data visualisation experience’ aimed at business users, by
From what I’ve read and understood, Project Crescent is best applied to ad-hoc, undirected analysis work rather than directed reports, displaying current operational data activity. This blog
What does Microsoft Reporting Services give you, that Excel doesn’t? Excel offers accessibility of data, and is, in my experience, the most popular BI tool
One of the key issues in Business Intelligence is the display of data concisely, appropriately and correctly. In particular, Reporting Services (SSRS) and Excel, in
The purpose of this blog is to help you to see the difference that the underlying data structure has in determining the visual resulting visual
As you may have seen, the Man Booker prize has been won by Howard Jacobson with The Finkler Question. If you’re a bookworm like me, and like to
It’s possible to interact directly with Tableau workbooks using Tableau Public, which is probably best described as a ‘Youtube’ for data. This means that viewers
This is the second blog in a series which focuses on the occasional difficulties around user acceptance of bullet charts. In my experience, bullet charts
Every year since 1901, the Nobel Prize is an international award dedicated to outstanding achievements to humanity. There are prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature. It is administered
From speaking with users and report writers, I have found that there are a number of aspects of bullet charts which people might find a bit off-putting. On the other
One of my readers, Misbah, wrote recently to ask a query about obtaining sample data sets. I’ve done some research on this – Misbah, this