Method

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.

In part II of this series, Some Words You Need to Know,  I explained some of the basic terminology required to understand the concepts which will be discussed in later blog posts for this series.

The unfortunate truth about traditional heavy business information technologies is that they require the report developer to predict the types of questions that the information consumer is going to ask.

 This fact contributes to frustration for both the people building the reports and the information consumers who need flexible tools.