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• Tourism and Technology - Virtual Tour of London and South Africa 2010

  Living away from home makes you miss friends, family… and, perhaps oddly, the place. VR Web Design offer a service which gives a Virtual Tour of London and other cities which is very innovative and cool. Note: the spheres are areas of focus / interest Read More... Posted 02 November 2009 03:56 by john.brookmyre | 1 Comments Filed under: User Statistics, Conchango, BI, Public Data Sets, User Interface, User Experience, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Consultants, EMC Consulting, Presentation styles, Presentation Techniques, Geo Spatial, Social BI, Future Trends, Dashboards, Context, Quick wins, Information Visualisation, Information Visualization, Knowledge management, Collaboration

• Data Visualization in a 3D World

  When Alexander of Macedonia [ link ] was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer, its a shame he wasn't around in today's world as there would be plenty of battles for him to get his teeth into - especially with visualizing Read More... Posted 22 March 2009 13:26 by john.brookmyre | 0 Comments Filed under: Conchango, BI, User Interface, User Experience, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Consultants, EMC Consulting, Geo Spatial, Dashboards, Context, Information Visualisation, Information Visualization

• PerformancePoint - Pricing

  With the recent changes to PerformancePoint Server the way it is procured and licensed is changing. If like me, you still want to offer clients a BI solution which uses PerformancePoint the following may be of interest - good news, it is getting cheaper Read More... Posted 17 March 2009 17:03 by john.brookmyre | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS, Microsoft, Conchango, BI, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Microsoft BI, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Consultants, EMC Consulting, Dashboards, Information Visualisation, Information Visualization

• The future according to Microsoft - Data Visualization and Information Visualization

  I don't want to wish my life away, but I cannot wait for 2019 if this is what we are going to be working, playing and living with.   Predicting the future is tough - we still don't have flying cars, my jet pack is yet to materialise and summer holidays Read More... Posted 02 March 2009 20:16 by john.brookmyre | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Conchango, BI, Cloud, User Interface, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Microsoft BI, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, EMC Consulting, Future Trends, Future, Information Visualisation, Information Visualization, Azure, Wharton, Stephen Elop

• BI Mashups - Let's go Geo

  Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that "by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups" in the Five Predictions report . I have Read More... Posted 19 February 2009 10:27 by john.brookmyre | 5 Comments Filed under: Conchango, SharePoint, BI, User Experience, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Microsoft BI, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Consultants, PerformancePoint, EMC Consulting, Presentation Techniques, Geo Spatial, Maps, Gartner, Google Earth, Future Trends, MOSS, PPS

• Follow me, follow you... Welcome to Google Latitude!

  Google Latitude is a new service that will allow you to track the location of friends and family via your phone or PC. Latitude is an add-on to Google Maps mobile software - you'll need to update to the latest version (3.0.0 at time of writing, no iPhone Read More... Posted 05 February 2009 12:33 by john.brookmyre | 1 Comments Filed under: Conchango, BI, Business Intelligence, Generation V, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, EMC Consulting, Geo Spatial, Maps, Google Latitude

• I know I am me...

  Moving into the multiple factor authentication World (crypto calculators, tags etc) it looks like we may all have a lot of these different devices to authenticate our selves, here are my ramblings on the subject... Does anyone else have a bank account Read More... Posted 29 January 2009 21:35 by john.brookmyre | 1 Comments Filed under: User Adoption, Conchango, BI, User Experience, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Statistics, Consultants, Analytics, Authentication, Security, Multiple factor authentication

• Data Visualization for the Inauguration

  Came across a really nice data visualization on the New York Times site of the Inaugural speeches from 1978 to present. Shows the most popular words from all the speeches with the size indicating number of uses and the highlight used to show words used Read More... Posted 21 January 2009 10:45 by john.brookmyre | 1 Comments Filed under: Usage Stats, Conchango, BI, User Interface, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Consultants, Inauguration, President, Obama, Unstructured data

• Are You R-ing Yet?

  An introduction to the Open Source statistical and data analysis programming language which offers an alternative to commercial products such as SAS and SPSS. I first came across R a couple of years ago working for a Government Agency where I used it Read More... Posted 14 January 2009 07:44 by john.brookmyre | 0 Comments Filed under: Conchango, BI, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation, Data Analysis, Statistics, Consultants, Open Source, R, SAS, SPSS, Analytics

• Business Intelligence Data Visualization – How To Confuse...

  We put a lot of effort into getting the metrics, KPIs, dimensions, values into the database, data warehouse, the ETL, analysis and user requirements have all been completed but we don’t always spend enough time looking at the effective visualization of Read More... Posted 09 January 2009 08:45 by john.brookmyre | 2 Comments Filed under: Conchango, BI, User Interface, User Experience, Business Intelligence, John Brookmyre, Data Visualization, Data Visualisation