by Ted Cuzzillo
When I first heard of Qlik’s research into use of mobile devices, I thought so what? It’s an engineering problem, I said. Just figure out how to make charts work on a laptop, a Mac, an smartphone, and a tablet and be done with it.
That was months ago, when Qlik released its study of mobility use. Then I started watching my own use of these things and finally decided Qlik may be onto something. There may be more to this report than meets the eye.
by Ted Cuzzillo
People tell stories wherever they are, in every medium, day or night, in business or not. What can software do to help tell data stories?
Give them templates? Force suddenly mute would-be storytellers into a best practice?
Probaby not. You can imagine the stories about the stories. “I knew it’d be another god damn story” — “damn” being for the stale formula.
“People tell stories anyway,” says Donald Farmer, the Qlik vice president of innovation. What can software do? He says maybe the best thing is to just stay out of the way.
by Ted Cuzzillo
I heard an IBM marketing vice president say last summer, “Storytelling will be huge.” I think so, too. But what are data stories?
The big question on the table was what it would take for BI to break out of its miserable five percent penetration into business? Two regulars at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit — Harriet Fryman, IBM vice president of portfolio marketing, big data and analytics, joined Claudia Imhoff, founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust and well known author — to consider the problem at last summer’s event.
Vendors tell us that data stories are whatever they’re selling.… Read the rest “Data storytelling will be bigger than data itself”