rEVOLUTION Blog
Posted by Dan Murray on Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The TED Video Viewer
In enjoy watching TED talks and decided to build a Tableau workbook to organize and find videos on specific topics. A web-embedded version of this workbook was featured on Tableau Software’s blog. read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Monday, February 8, 2010
Do you have a large group of novice Tableau users? Want to speed-up their learning and move them quickly from basic to intermediate or advanced skill levels?
InterWorks is now offering intensive Tableau Software...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Gartner Research released its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms last Friday. The report was complied using data was collected from (897) user survey responses. For the first time, Tableau Software met all of the criteria for...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Friday, December 18, 2009
As part of our Federal government’s commitment to greater transparency, The US House of Representatives released its Statement of Disbursements (SOD) in electronic format, late November, covering July 1, 2009 through September 20, 2009.read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Thursday, October 29, 2009
For you Tablaeu users that are interested in stretching Tableau’s data mapping capability, Joe Mako shared this excellent piece from Clearly and Simply which was written by a very smart lady from Republic of Lithuania You will...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Thursday, October 22, 2009
Yesterday Ted Cuzillo posted an article which outlined the struggle I’ve had coming up with a simple way to explain the value of ad hoc visual analysis.read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Monday, October 12, 2009
I’ve attached a pdf of the slide deck that I used for my presentation at Gainesville College this weekend.
Please note that all background images were generously provided by the kind photographers at Flickr Creative Commons. If you...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, Tableau posted some visualizations I created using data from the FDIC on banks and bank failures. For those of you interested in exploring the data further I’ve attached a packaged workbook with more elaborate views.
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Posted by Dan Murray on Friday, October 9, 2009
For those of you in the Atlanta area who want to learn more about data visualization and see a live demonstration of ad hoc visual analytics, please stop by for my 1:30PM EDT presentation at Gainesville State College in the Science and Techology...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Tuesday, October 6, 2009
In Parts I, II and III of this series, Building a High Value Low Cost BI Solution, I addressed some of the practical matters of project definition, database terminology and the the evolutionary method for migrating your data to a data...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Last night I viewed a great web video provided by TedBlog and Reddit in which Reddit users submitted questions to Hans Rosling.read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Thursday, September 3, 2009
I’ve been trolling the web for awhile searching for the best data visualization sites. These are some of my favorites. Many of them also contain links to other excellent resource sites.www.perceptualedge.comread more
Posted by Dan Murray on Friday, August 7, 2009
I’ve met a number of people who work in large organizations. These companies have big sums invested in data warehouse and business information software tools.read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Last weekend I spend a few hours analyzing the results for the 2009 Tour De France. I was pulling for Lance Armstrong (the old guy) to win number 8.
Alas, that wasn’t to be. I do think it’s amazing that a 36 year old guy who had been out...read more
Posted by Dan Murray on Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Typical business information vendors require you to invest a lot of money before you receive any actual benefit from your purchase.
InterWorks takes a different approach. We believe that an incremental “evolutionary” model for...read more
