A picture...or a thousand words?

Jennifer Marchi
Jennifer Marchi|April 17, 2012

I don’t know about you … but I get hundreds of e-mails a day!  Not only e-mail – but text messages, tweets, e-mail advertising, notices from blogs, rss feeds…coming to me at a numbingly fast pace day and night. It’s information overload. It’s also overwhelming.  And, on a personal level – [...]

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Picture this: The power of analytics extended to everyone in your organization

Jennifer Marchi
Jennifer Marchi|March 28, 2012

In my last blog post I revealed the WOW factor of SAS Visual Analytics.  In summary: analyzing billions of rows of data, across vast numbers of columns, via 100+ correlation calculations in SECONDS (wow). What exactly does that mean?  SAS Visual Analytics takes full advantage of SAS’ high-performance analytics technology.  [...]

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Pivot to win: Banks can score with big data

David Wallace
David Wallace|March 21, 2012

The first quarter of the fiscal year is the time that banking industry analysts provide clients with their vision on the key challenges and solutions in banking for 2012. TowerGroup’s Nicole Sturgill recently wrote that “understanding consumer use of the financial institution’s delivery channels is a critical element” for institutions [...]

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The fundamentals of data visualization: The redux

Tammi Kay George
Tammi Kay George|August 9, 2011

It’s always important to remember your fundamentals. Sort of like a basketball player who practices lay-ups and free throws for hours on end, you need the fundamentals in the midst of the game. Having the skills or knowledge in the heat of the moment – when it counts – is [...]

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How to become more agile with mobile and visualization technologies

Tammi Kay George
Tammi Kay George|August 8, 2011

Agility. I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the term while here in San Diego for the TDWI World Conference. “Evolving Your Agile BI Environment” is the theme of this year’s event and “agility” has definitely been embedded in the conversations I have had with customers the past few [...]

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My summer reading selection: Process improvement anyone?

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|July 18, 2011

I am one of those rare people that enjoys process; not rigid process and military-like discipline, but order. Wasted effort drives me insane. I’ve been on projects all through my career where I feel like the project teams are constantly reinventing the wheel, because nobody bothered to capture any documentation [...]

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Visualize your thoughts with a mind map!

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|June 22, 2011

I have recently discovered “mind mapping.” Mind mapping is not a new concept, but since I (re)learned it, I’ve found it to be an excellent tool for analyzing business problems and processes. I thought you might find it interesting too! Here’s an example: The other day, I was thinking about [...]

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Making the jump to visual thinking

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|June 20, 2011

The SAS office in New York City has one of the best views in the city. Sitting on the 47th floor of a skyscraper on 7th Avenue, the Executive Briefing Room overlooks Central Park and it has a highly distracting view – especially on such a nice sunny day. What [...]

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How to reach enlightenment with business intelligence

Lisa Pappas
Lisa Pappas|March 11, 2011

Business Intelligence is a phrase that means many things to different organizations, which is why all BI vendors have their own definition. The term was coined in 1958 by Hans Peter Luhn of IBM*, who described it as “the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a [...]

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Visualize Whirled Peas?

Mike Nemecek
Mike Nemecek|December 19, 2008

Saw an interesting Tweet (a post on Twitter) from investor and writer Paul Kedrosky today: “geeks only: five best data visualization projects of the year http://is.gd/cwIk” The link takes you to the FlowingData blog (created by a PhD statistics student in NY), and a post on some amazing examples of [...]

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