Business Intelligence Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest Business Intelligence Jobs and Info http://www.bireporter.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:12:22 -0500 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bireporter.com/logo.jpg http://www.bireporter.com Feed provided by Business Intelligence Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest Business Intelligence Jobs and Info. http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4684 This is an excellent example of using maps and animation to get the point across on bank failures over time.   Look at Washington Mutual up here in the Northwest.  Crazy.   I still believe JP Chase stole WAMU for the price http...(read more)[Image] Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4676 Previous – Excel Dashboard Tutorial – 9Cleanup – Resize and OrganizeGive appropriate names to each portlet.During the chart creation if we did not provide names, now is the time to provide them.Right click on each title and click on “Edit” Scale down the Size Note, you can drag the corners of each portlet to resize the frames [...]SHARETHIS. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4677 Previous – Excel Dashboard Tutorial – 8Finish the Dashboard Design and DevelopmentBy now, your dashboard is quite chaotic. You have objects all around your dashboard canvas with different sizes. We will start the process of finishing our design. Before proceeding, we save a copy of the dashboard.Navigate to menu File ‘ Save As Give a name [...]SHARETHIS. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4675 Previous – Excel Dashboard TutorialSummaryWe built the above dashboard completely from scratch.We defined CalculationsWe defined date hierarchiesWe built Date FiltersWe built Date ParametersWe built Bar ChartsWe built Pie ChartsWe cleaned the dashboard layoutNext – Share Excel Dashboard with other Users SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to build Excel Dashboards – 11", url: "http://www.appsbi.com/how-to-build-excel-dashboards-11" }); Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4674 Previous – Excel Dashboard Tutorial – 11How do you share your Excel Dashboard with users?Now that you have built the dashboard, you can share the dashboard in multiple ways.” Create a PDF output of the dashboard and send as email attachment.Click on the PDF icon on the toolbar as shown below and it will [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to build Excel Dashboards – 12", url: "http://www.appsbi. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4678 Previous – Excel Dashboard Tutorial – 7Create Pie ChartWe will now create a pie chart by product name  It is nice to know that the revenue distribution is not dominated by a single product.We can now change the “Category name parameter” to see the product distribution for other categoryBy Category = BeveragesSummary of steps so far” [...]SHARETHIS. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4679 Great analytical charts can tell an interesting story.  Check out this article from Gizmodo on Free vs Paid applications from the mobile OS providers.   Using the brand icons to represent the company is a great idea. http://gizmodo.com...(read more)[Image] Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4669 Cleverbot is a Learning Artificial Intelligence AI software program that cannot learn how to use IBM InfoSphere DataStage. Cleverbot at www.cleverbot.com.  I put it through the DataStage Certification sample questions. User: Wh... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4668 Previous Part Build Excel Dashboards – 3We will Add Calculations and FormulasAdd CalculationsSince this is a raw extract of actual transactions, it may need to add additional calculations and columns to create useful metrics.For e.g in our sample file, we have the “Unit Price” and “Quantity” columns. We will create calculation to derive the “Amount” [...]SHARETHIS. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4665 Dashboard Spy Topic: Excel Dashboard Example.Excel dashboard guru Chandoo offers a download of an excellent infographic he created using Excel 2010. Did you know that Excel 2010 has sparklines? Take a look at this awesome excel dashboard done in an infographic poster style.Visit his post to download the excel file: Sachin Tendulkar Statistics [...]a[Image][Image][Image] Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500