Republican Scott Brown scored a big upset when he won the senate race in Massachusetts to replace the late Teddy Kennedy. I was looking at data about funding sources and thought this would be interesting to visualize. I was surprised by the amount of out of state contributions. It will be interesting to follow Mr. Brown’s progress as …
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for: ‘July, 2010’
PowerPivot: A video introduction from MrExcel
Bill Jelen, aka MrExcel has written the first book on Microsoft’s new PowerPivot. PowerPivot is a the Office 2010 solution to link Excel to millions of rows of data held on databases or large text files. PowerPivot will ensure that Excel remains a useful, and perhaps even more serious, dashboard tool. I found this video …
If your sales dashboard tells you that sales are down, but not why, you don’t have a dashboard
I tweeted the following a while back: If your sales dashboard tells you that sales are down, but not why, you don’t have a dashboard It’s worth expanding on this a little more than the 140 characters allowed on Twitter. What do I mean by this? Simply, if your dashboard shows key performance indicators, or …
Using Google Chart API to create dashboards and sparklines
A few posts back I talked about using a plugin to the jquery javascript library to create sparklines in blog posts. One of my readers suggested using Google’s chart api to instead create the sparklines. From Google: What is the Google Chart API? The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts with a URL …
Who did we declare independence from again?
The fourth of July is Independence Day in the US. 1,004 US residents were asked who independence was declared from. The results? A little concerning, shall we say. Here’s the response via a Tableau dashboard. Dashboard 1
Augmented (hyper)Reality
You’re kidding yourself if this won’t be reality one day. Too. Much. Going. On. Need. A. Cup. Of. Tea.
