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Month: March 2015
MammothBI video
I’m rapidly running out of my allotted video time on YouTube that does not include a cat.
The recording is from the MammothBI conference from last year. It was a great event, modelled on the TEDx style and very professionally handled. Well done to Jason Haddock and the team for doing such a great job. Looking forward to going again this year.
Cool new dashboard design
A colleague of mine sent me a link to a new web based dashboard designed by Sid Lee. In the book Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few, there are many examples of how not to do it, and generally the idea of yet another dashboard does not fill me with any sense of excitement. This was one of those moments where I expected to click and run but this one really caught my eye.
While the effectiveness of the actually data communication techniques might not be as good as it could be, it is an order of magnitude more interesting to look at than the usual Excel pie chart brigade.
