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InfoMesa - Ink Integration & Inserting a web page into a WPF Canvas
Abstract from Samb Business Intelligence Blog (Indexed 2007-12-15):
This past week we made some big breakthroughs in getting ink and objects worked out. The basic concept behind the mechanism is using layers of Canvas and InkCanvas and trying to unify the experience of working with both of them like they are one unit.
This diagram might help you understand better...
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Here's an idea of how we handle selection via Ink or normal canvas...
private void ProcessMode(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
bRubberBanding = false;
Some thoughts about WPF and Data Visualization
Abstract from Samb Business Intelligence Blog (Indexed 2007-11-15):
I just got back from seeing a customer who is doing a lot of investigation into using Microsoft technologies for Visualization. All kinds of tools - WPF/Silverlight/Reporting Services/Excel Services - even using 3D exposed by Direct X.
While I've been taking a personal "crash-coarse" on WPF (is that a word?), I've come to a big conclusion in my own career...The world is about to change when it comes to Visualization.
Visualization has always been very, very niche - especially in busines...(truncated)...
Dashboard Examples using Oracle Portal
Abstract from Dashboards by Example (Indexed 2007-11-13):
“I have a hard time telling what a dashboard is these days. For example, what’s the difference between a portal and a dashboard? Even the terms are the same - “Portlet”, for example, is used in both paradigms to describe a little container of like subject matter.”This recent comment by a Dashboard Spy reader rings [...]
Microcharts brings Sparklines and Bullet Graphs to Excel 2007
Abstract from Samb Business Intelligence Blog (Indexed 2007-12-24):
http://www.microcharts.net/
MicroCharts for Microsoft BI integrates sparklines and bullet graphs into the Excel PivotTable. Sparklines are calculated as strings within SQL Server and rendered as high quality TrueType fonts. This allows business users to do effective KPI analysis and to easily detect patterns and exceptions in financial data.
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It looks like they even took Stephen Few's advice for rendering Bullet Graphs in monochrome...[Image][Image]
Sparklines in Business Scorecard Manager and PerformancePoint Server Dashboards
Abstract from Dashboards by Example (Indexed 2007-11-09):
Dashboard designers, actually information visualization gurus in particular, love the use of sparklines, those little trendlines created by Edward Tufte. But popular dashboarding packages have not caught up with the designer demand for sparkline graphing and so when dashboard practitioners experiment with the integration of specialty products such as MicroCharts into major offerrings such as [...]
Bullet Graphs for Not-to-Exceed Targets
Abstract from Visual Business Intelligence (Indexed 2008-02-04):
When I designed the bullet graph back in 2005, I did it to solve a particular problem related to dashboard displays. The graphical widgets that software vendors were providing to display single measures, such as year-to-date sales revenue, consisted mostly of circular gauges and meters, which suffered from several problems. Most of them conveyed too [...]
Excel 2007 Dashboards are NOT for Dummies
Abstract from Dashboards by Example (Indexed 2008-01-28):
Dashboard Spy readers know how much I am convinced that Microsoft Excel 2007 will be leading a new wave of dashboards across the corporate world. The new version ofMS Excel is built from the ground up with tools for dashboarding. Remember this UI designer sketch I featured in a past post (How Microsoft Designed Excel [...]
InfoMesa - Improvements on Web Service Integration/Partner Branding and Commonality
Abstract from Samb Business Intelligence Blog (Indexed 2007-12-18):
Well, I'm pretty mentally gone (many of my friends and colleagues will attest to that) after spending most of the day getting some broad parts of InfoMesa into better shape.
The overall look and feel of InfoMesa is much cleaner and smoother, than the POC release...
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At the bottom of the window, a blue expander bar can be closed to maximize whiteboard space.
The ToolTab, especially the Search Tab, has been improved to allow for great partner branding experience. For example,...(truncated)...
Brain Parts Simulated in Silicon
Abstract from Samb Business Intelligence Blog (Indexed 2008-01-04):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/20/research.it
In a laboratory in Switzerland, a group of neuroscientists is developing a mammalian brain - in silicon. The researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), in collaboration with IBM, have just completed the first phase of an ambitious project to reproduce a fully functioning brain on a supercomputer. By strange coincidence, their lab happens to lie on the same shores of Lake Geneva where Mary Shelley dreamt up ...(truncated)...
Rendering and "Siming" Proteins in Second Life
Abstract from Samb Business Intelligence Blog (Indexed 2007-12-24):
http://tidalblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/big-bigger-and-coul...(truncated)...
Some very clever protein visualizations on Second Life.
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