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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 which can be clicked on to shift the focus to another part of the city.   This was ...

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 reams of information in a ever flowing and tempestuous sea of data which can be visualized in a 3D ...

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 (thanks to the guys at Microsoft who gave me the information): · Until April 1st, the ...

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 aren't on the moon... but some of Microsoft's Business Division have come up with ...

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 been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with ...

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 or Android (weird) support yet but I am up and running on my Blackberry Pearl - not sure how ...

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 which uses crypto calculators, tags or mobile phone codes to validate a transaction? Two factor ...

I heard rumours earlier in the week that PerformancePoint was going to be changing and colleagues had found various snippets of news online, but there are now details on the The Microsoft BI Blog - it looks like Planning is going to be discontinued (after SP3) and  Monitoring will be included in MOSS - makes sense with the new strategy / road ...

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 more than average by Obama. A nice way to show unstructured data. Comments ...

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 briefly for a POC where we were building Kohonen Networks before moving to SAS at the behest of ...