Date archive for February, 2010
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Tableau Public- great visualization now where do we get the data?
Good news on the visualization front this week when Tableau announced that it was making its well received visualization software available in a free public version, as well as providing a structure to allow users to integrate Tableau visualizations into their websites. Tableau has received a fair amount of positive response from the visualization world. […]
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Inner and outer joins SQL examples and the Join block
In this post I’ll show you how to do all the main types of Joins with clear SQL examples. The examples are written for Microsoft SQL Server, but very similar syntax is used in Oracle, MySQL and other databases. If you are tired of writing SQL and want to try a visual tool, you should […]
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Estimating the cost of Business Intelligence
How much does a single Business Intelligence report cost a company? Well, obviously there is no single answer- but Boris Evelson of Forrester took a shot at it recently in a blog post. Even when it’s not an easy question, it is worth pursuing, and Boris lays out a useful discussion. $150 000 is the […]
