Foreword All businesses have a product which they sell and hospitals, even non-profits, are no exception to that rule. Their product? Beds. Oh, sure they have lots of human beings that poke you, prod you, care for you and feed… Read more ›
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 ›
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 ›
We spend 99% of our time on the word “intelligence” completely ignore the primary word “actionable.” Read more ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›