DataVisualization

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.

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 find sample Tableau packaged workboo

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.

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 interesting in finding out more about the images, information on the photographer and photo is provided on the final slide.

Atlanta_SQLSat25_DMurraySlideDeck

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.

Last night I viewed a great web video provided by TedBlog and Reddit in which Reddit users submitted questions to Hans Rosling.

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.com

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.

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 of the sport for almost 4 years managed to finish a very competitive 3^rd.

I’ve attached the Tableau packaged workbook with all of the results.

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 building a business information system is more appropriate for the majority of entities with fewer than 250 employees.

Why?  Building a solution incrementally and using Tableau Software as the front end user interface provides the following benefits: