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Stalking the why: selling visual analysis

October 21, 2009 by Ted Cuzzillo

How do you show the value of visual analysis to business people? Dan Murray can show it in demos, but he keeps looking for the “magic dust” that explains in a snap.

He sees visual analysis as a key part of low-cost business intelligence at small- and medium-sized organizations — and he’s set out with evangelical zeal to provide as many of these firms as he can with BI.

Filed Under: analysis & methods, BI industry Tagged With: Dan Murray, IT, marketing/PR, Spotfire, Tableau, tools, visual analysis 7 Comments

Denial of access explained

August 25, 2009 by Ted Cuzzillo

The week before last, I told about the young data analyst who got the door slammed in his data-seeking face, and I asked “why?” This week, a veteran of the data business answered.

Filed Under: analysis & methods, BI industry Tagged With: data analyst, IT, Tiberius Leave a Comment

Denial of access

August 14, 2009 by Ted Cuzzillo

I hear a story like the one I heard this week and I want to ask the apparent villain why. There must be a reasonable explanation.

At first glance, he’s like other managers I’ve known of who throttle promising work for what seems like a personal need for control. “So tell me,” I’d like to say over beers, “what were you thinking when you denied that analyst free access to that data? What’s your side of it?”

Filed Under: analysis & methods, BI industry Tagged With: analysts, IT, Lyza, managers, Tableau 1 Comment

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Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

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