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Blog for the times: on high-value, low-cost BI

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Dan Murray expects to take another step this week in his thrilling rebellion, spreading the word on high value, low cost BI.

Though it’s a rebellion and may burn with Che Guevara-type zeal, Dan’s methods actually lean way over toward Darwinian evolution. Revolution is expensive and risky, he writes, while evolution is intelligent and incremental. He also likes to point out that Che died brutally at 39 and Darwin died at 73 in bed with family around him.

First, people have to learn the basics, that tough work to create a data warehouse. His rebellion does it with Tableau, spreadsheets and a little guidance.… Read the rest “Blog for the times: on high-value, low-cost BI”

A long look at Stephen Few’s “Now You See It”

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Stephen Few gave a snappy name to his new book, Now You See It, and a cover that signals a gem — all black with a slice of sunset that highlights the “see.”

Inside, many charts are so beautiful — at least to a visual analysis fan — that they rival the waterfalls and trees of old Sierra Club coffee table books. It’s on paper so thick — and even smoother than Few’s first book, Show Me the Numbers — that you might feel like you’re flipping postcards.

While Show Me the Numbers was about how to present visualized data, he explains, Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques
for Quantitative Analysis is about understanding them, which apparently includes how to make them.… Read the rest “A long look at Stephen Few’s “Now You See It””

Thrilling rebellion

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Dan Murray’s taking on Big BI — and in just under two weeks at the Tableau Customer Conference in Seattle, he’s going to explain his four steps to rebellion — that is, “a high value, low cost BI reporting system.”

Dan devised the system when the company he worked for — which had revenue of about $70 million — couldn’t afford solutions from Big BI vendors. Bids ranged from $130,000 to $580,000.

Dan built his own with Tableau and Excel. The final cost, he writes, was $40,000 — $8000 for Tableau Desktop Pro and the rest for the database and ETL logic.… Read the rest “Thrilling rebellion”