click to read the latest issue A bunch of interesting articles about business analytics and predictive analytics from a managerial point of view, in the November issue of INFORMS Analytics magazine. Continue reading November Analytics magazine on BI
A colleague who knows my fascination with data visualization pointed me to a recent interesting video created by Geoff McGhee on Journalism in the Age of Data. In this 8-part video, he interviews media people who create visualizations for their websites at the New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, and more. It is interesting to see their view of why interactive visualization might be useful to their audience, and how it is linked to “good journalism”. Also interviewed are a few visualization interface developers (e.g., IBM’s Many Eyes designers) as well as Infographics experts and participants at the major Inforgraphics … Continue reading Data visualization in the media: Interesting video
Being in Bhutan this year, I have requested the American Statistical Association (ASA) and INFORMS to mail the magazines that come with my membership to Bhutan. Although I can access the magazines online, I greatly enjoy receiving the issues by mail (even if a month late) and leafing through them leisurely. Not to mention the ability to share them with local colleagues who are seeing these magazines for the first time! Now to the data-analytic reason for my post: The main article in the August 2010 issue of AMSTAT News (the ASA’s magazine) on Fellow Award: Revisited (Again) presented an “update to … Continue reading ASA’s magazine: Excel’s default charts