Ted Cuzzillo

BI events and trends in a tag cloud

December 19, 2007 by Ted Cuzzillo

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 gave him lists and I, always the odd one, delivered in a different format.

In the one-word view, the John Hancock—hey, now there’s a new meaning for that term—is “applications.” In the two-word view, it’s “analytic applications.”

Take a look for yourself below. For a much better view, see the Many Eyes page.… Read the rest “BI events and trends in a tag cloud”

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

December 19, 2007 by Ted Cuzzillo

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?

Wall Street Journal tag clouds compare Romney and JFK

December 6, 2007 by Ted Cuzzillo

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 popped out at me yet. Smaller stories seem to emerge as I look closer.

As you’d expect, “religion” (in Romney’s statement) and “religious” (in Kennedy’s) pop out to about the same degree in both. Kennedy’s “catholic church” also dominates, while Romney’s “church” is not so prominent.… Read the rest “Wall Street Journal tag clouds compare Romney and JFK”