Show and Tell
One of my fondest memories of early years in school was Show and Tell. For those not familiar with the concept, students could bring 1 item to school with them and show it off to the class. As you can… Read more ›
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Visualizing the Whole Story
Recently my colleague, friend and all around nice guy David Freriks asked me to help him “analyze” the data available for Peloton. As you can imagine two data dorks like us had a lot of fun trying to create an… Read more ›
Actionable Intelligence
We spend 99% of our time on the word “intelligence” completely ignore the primary word “actionable.” Read more ›
Visualizing Analytics in Virtual Reality
Total Immersion How cool is this image of a physician totally immersed in patient data in this virtual world? As soon as the coolness wheres off your brain is left scrambling for reality. Can we really do this? Would it… Read more ›
Visualizing Data Fluency
The real question that’s plagued the world has never been “Should I visualize the data?” it’s always been “How should I visualize the data?” Because it’s not that people don’t want to see things visually it’s a matter of how… Read more ›
To achieve, or not to achieve action
That is the question. At least it’s the question that we in the business intelligence community should be focusing on. Why weave my title so closely to one of the most famous lines by William Shakespeare? Simple. Our ability to… Read more ›
Avoiding a Data Tornado
You know I love to go out on a limb using data metaphors. Sometimes they are my own and sometimes I flat out steal them from others. (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you know.) I’ve wanted to continue… Read more ›
Visualizing the Data Consumption Continuum
As this is intended to be a blog about visualization it seemed only fitting that I devote this post to visualizing the concept I introduced last week that I called a Data Consumption Continuum. It all started with … A… Read more ›
The Data Consumption Continuum
We humans love to consume. Food. Water. Fuels. And my personal favorite Chocolate. You name it we want to consume it. Health warnings have little effect at deterring us from consuming mass quantities of the wrongs things. Yet sadly there… Read more ›
Visualizing Healthcare Claims
I recently had the opportunity to demonstrate Qlik Sense for the Director of a large health system’s Revenue Cycle team. The consultant who recommended us spoke with me ahead of time and we got along great. “This guy has been… Read more ›