What Is Your Waffle House?
With “reporting tools” we have become extremely good at letting people see things they already know. At some companies it can be very difficult to break out of that mode. I can’t tell you how many...
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Visualize Whirled Peas
Keeping with the food them from my prior blog post, I present to you: 40 Maps That Explain Food in America. In fact, it was this article that lead me to the Waffle House article to begin with. The 40...
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The More Things Change…
…the more they stay the same. I’ve been fairly quiet here for a long time. Part of the reason is I’ve been busy with family and work. My older son will be a senior in high school this year, and my...
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Resetting a Running Function
I’ve been inactive on BOB for a while as well as here…recently I was reminded that some of the old questions still come up periodically. For example, how do you reset a running total? It’s not hard,...
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Copying Content Is Not A Complement
It was brought to my attention recently that someone has taken content from my blog and re-posted it to blogspot. I have used the contact form available on their blog to request the removal of my...
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BI Evolution
As a long-time Business Objects user / consultant / trainer it has been interesting to watch the growth and evolution of BI tools. I work for a fairly large company with a significant investment in...
View ArticleUpdate on Query Banding
Years ago we implemented query banding as a way to track queries being submitted from Business Objects. As I’ve mentioned we’re moving into Tableau as well now, and Tableau also supports query banding....
View ArticleStephen Few Blog Post on Multivariate Visualization
Really good read, in my opinion. Here’s the opening paragraph: Almost all data visualizations are multivariate (i.e., they display more than one variable), but there are practical limits to the number...
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BOB Turns 18…and Retires
BOB turned 18 this year, and has retired. We should all be so lucky as to be able to retire at 18, but BOB was special. The original BUSOB-L Listserv started in 1996. By the early 2000’s the community...
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And Now Dave
A few years back (wow, has it really been that long since I have written here?) I wrote about BOB retiring. Today I am writing to announce my own retirement. I will be leaving my current position and...
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