Business Intelligence Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest Business Intelligence Jobs and Info http://www.bireporter.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:11:18 -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=4707 Great visual on the market share by mobile internet browsers. http://connect.icrossing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mo...(truncated)...  ...(read more)[Image] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4708 In the January 2010 issue of the Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter I redesigned a display of health care costs that appears on GE’s website. I did this using Tableau and provided a link in the article to a live version of the interactive display on the Web. You might have wondered what I did to [...] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4700 No ClutterDont clutter your dashboard with unnecessary visual elements and data. If it looks too busy, then it will fail to communicate the data effectively. Dont include every bit of data in a dashboard. Seperate them into separate dashboard Tabs.Single Page – No Horizontal scrollingDo not put objects on the far right so that [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5 Simple Dashboard Practices", url: "http://www.appsbi.com/5-simple-dashboard-practices" }); Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4701 Great infographic on the mobile business opportunities.   Are you working on mobile solutions?!   http://dataviz.tumblr.com/post/433636552...(read more)[Image] Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4702 In building scorecards, sometimes the end result can lose impact if it contains information that has no value. One such kind of information are members that return empty results. Today, you have the ability on a published scorecard, in SharePoint, to...(read more)[Image] Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.bireporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=4703 The software vendors that have dominated the business intelligence market for the last 15 years or so have hit the wall and they haven’t a clue how to scale it. They’re stuck because they insist on applying the skills and methods that helped them successfully build data warehouses and production reporting systems to a radically [...] Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 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