Stephen Few wrote a brilliant (and rather scathing) post recently: Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. In the post, he extensively quotes marketingspeak from various SAP executives and then picks apart their claims. He follows that part of the post with excerpts from a review of their …
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Ryan Goodman of Centigon Solutions wrote up his take on a recent discussion on LinkedIn that centered on the tension between data visualization that is “flashy” versus data visualization that rigorously adheres to the teachings of Tufte and Few. The third point in Goodman’s take is worth quoting almost in its …
I caught an NPR story about recovery.gov last week, and it sounded really promising. Depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, the various rounds of stimulus and bailout funding that have come through over the past six months fall somewhere between “throwing money away,” “ready, fire, aim,” and …
I got an e-mail last week just a few hours into Round 1 of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The subject of the email was simply “dumb graph,” and the key line in the note was: The “game flow” graph…how in the WORLD is that telling me anything? That …
I attended a United Way meeting last week that was hosted at an overburdened county government agency site in south Columbus. The gist of the meeting was discussing the bleakness of the economy and what that could or should mean to the work of the committee. The head of the …
How’s that for a book title? Would it pique your interest? Would you download it and read it? Do you have friends or co-workers who would be interested in it? Why am I asking? Because it doesn’t exist. Yet. Call it a working title for a project I’ve been kicking around in …