December 2007

BI events and trends in a tag cloud

December 19, 2007

No sooner did TDWI’s newsweekly post three views of business intelligence trends and events than the combined text appeared as a tag cloud on Many Eyes. BI This Week editor Jim Powell had asked me, Stephen Swoyer and Mike Schiff to cough up two lists: events from 2007 and trends we expect in 2008. They [...]

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My latest at ‘BI This Week’: ’07 events and ’08 trends

December 19, 2007

Events and Trends: A Conversation About 2007 and 2008 (12/19/2007) Acquisitions of pure-play BI vendors was the big story, but the meaning will play out in 2008. How will the smaller vendors find a place in the new ecosystem?

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Wall Street Journal tag clouds compare Romney and JFK

December 6, 2007

Today’s Wall Street Journal Online uses tag clouds—the first I’ve seen on that site—to compare Mitt Romney’s statement on religion with John F. Kennedy’s statement in the fall of 1960 as he ran for president. It’s great to see the Wall Street Journal getting into information visualization (a.k.a. “infovis” among aficionados). No big story has [...]

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My latest: “BI Careers: Knowing Technology Isn’t Enough”

December 5, 2007

My article in today’s BI This Week. BI veterans give tech workers advice on getting ahead in the industry without burning out first.

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Joke about the business-IT gulf

December 4, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll, one of the paper’s bright lights, relayed a joke from a reader in his column today. This should sound familiar to anyone who’s looked across the gulf between a corporation’s business side and its IT side.

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Visualization of another kind makes CO2 visible

December 3, 2007

It’s not the kind of visualization we’ve been talking about, but it works. This brief video on YouTube makes carbon dioxide more than visible. The CO2 becomes scary.

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