Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I found this at Cool Infographics.
Found on notcot.com, On The Map is a cool project by Stefanie Posavec that maps the rhythm and flow of literary works into some stunning visual posters.
Breaking a story down into chapters, paragraphs, sentences and finally individual words. Then color coded to capture ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
I read a really excellent article today entitled, Why Bother With Affordable Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence? As I was reading, I came across a line that hit a nerve with me:
One is not really sure how valuable the information is until one understands it - a sort of BI ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
While I have been posting about some great, recently-released books (see yesterday's post about the book, Data Quality Assessment), I wanted to mention Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions by James Taylor and Neil Raden.
From the first paragraph of their intriguing book:
Smart enough systems ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Yesterday, my post touched on the importance of data quality within the Business Intelligence architecture. I wanted to bring to your attention a book that recently came out regarding data quality assessments. Data Quality Assessment (a descriptive title, huh?) is an extremely interesting book that deserves your attention. ...
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives and Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's, released the book Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future in 2006. In this book, he discusses how much an individual's mindset influences the data collected and ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
A few weeks ago I found an interesting article on Boing Boing about how the Web Destroys Categories, Disciplines, and Hierarchies. It discusses the book: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger.
David Weinberger's "Everything is Miscellaneous" is the kind of book that binds ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
An interesting article from Boing Boing talks about quirks in the human decision making process. The article is based on an upcoming book by Richard Wiseman called Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things.
New Scientist had listed several of the author's studies discussed in the book. ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Edward Tufte is the master of effective and clear visual presentation of analytical information. His Ask E.T. section of his website is a tremendous resource with extremely valuable discussion.
Although I find the design of his site hard to manage, it is packed with great information. His four books ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
There are a large number of excellent data warehousing books out on the market. Among the ones I find the best are:
1. The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit by Ralph Kimball
Kimball shows practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Excellent for the technical practioner.
2. ...
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