With Super Bowl LI just a few days away, this article will expand on the Visualization lessons from my previous article, “Predicting Super Bowl LI: 4 Quick Lessons in Data Visualization (Part 1)“, to include my 5 rules for building dashboard visualization. Our ultimate objective is to use visualizations to help us predict the results…
Predicting Super Bowl LI: 4 Quick Lessons in Data Visualization (Part 1)
As Super Bowl LI, that’s 51 for the Roman Numerally challenged, rapidly approaches, millions of people are looking forward to the big game. Chief among these people are the diehard fans of the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots. But there are also NFL fans, football fans, sports fans and so many among us…
IBM Cognos Express: Facts & Features
Breakthrough business intelligence and performance management for workgroups and midsize organizations IBM® Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) solution built to meet the needs of midsize organizations. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, visualization,dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize organizations and workgroups require,…
Social Media and Business, the Business of Insight
I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and the use of the massive amounts of data that it represents. I’ve had reason to think about it lately because we’re in that business. I sometimes find the universe of what I call social data too large to comprehend. The term used in the industry is…
Welcome to Arbor Solutions – Video
Arbor Solutions is a Grand Rapids Michigan based I.T. solutions provider and IBM Business Partner offering IBM Power Systems, IBM i, AIX, and Linux O/S, Licensing & Maintenance, Application Development Services (PHP, RPG, SQL, Java, JavaScript, .NET, & VB), Systems Engineering, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Hosting & Co-Location Services, Cloud (IBM i, AIX, & Linux…