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 ›
A picture paints a thousand words They say that a picture paints a thousand words. If that were true, you should be able to describe a picture with a thousand words. Right? Like you, I have no idea who “they”… 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 ›
Flexibility Question: How do you know whether you are an artist or a BI designer? Answer: By the amount of hands on interaction from your end users. To that end Qlik provides you the means of adding functionality to engage… Read more ›
Ask any Qlikkie and they will tell you that the one feature about Qlik that sets it apart from any other product is its Associative Engine. It allows you to hold gigantic amounts of data in memory and navigate it… Read more ›
Politics is a topic we are supposed to stay away from. It turns friends into enemies. Plus House Resolutions are just a bunch of boring text who has time for all that jazz. Certainly won’t find any in other data… 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 ›
Ask any Data Visualization expert and one of the best pieces of advice that they will give you is “remove the clutter” so that your “data can tell the story.” Would it be going to far if I suggested that… Read more ›
Many who make requests seem to have a belief that Business Intelligence is magic. They loose their ability to listen to logic and reason and simply ask you to do the impossible. Many who make requests seem to have a belief… Read more ›
