Publications

Steve Miller, DMReview.com, April 27, 2006

When I first approached a colleague for feedback on the graphs that are the topic of this paper, I was quite surprised by his reactions. He not only critiqued the work, he pretty much leveled it, sparing no disdain to a close friend. The graphics were very 1980s, he noted, and who in BI is doing graphics anyway - live visualization is the standard now. My work was mundane, unsexy, passive; current technology allowed users to interact with their visuals - to rotate, restrict, expand, drill, etc. though live data, providing inestimable opportunity for analysis. The quality of what I presented did not even cut it by 15-year-old spreadsheet standards, he hinted, let alone the exciting visual developments of the last few years.

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