As Internet-based warfare heats up and computer networks become a more critical component of conventional military operations, the Pentagon is investing in improving cybersecurity analytics overall and visual analytics in particular. For security analysts, visual analytics tools represent a way Read More…
In this video, Robert Kosara, a visual analysis researcher at Tableau, presents lessons that analytics professionals and decision-makers can learn from four effective presentations that show how data can tell stories and yield important insights. Read More…
A secure cloud isn’t a myth or even out of reach when dealing with healthcare information. In fact, implementing an intelligent security model around virtualized infrastructure is not only doable, but also provides unprecedented value to healthcare organizations and businesses Read More…
Pedro Alves has been an active member of the Pentaho community, adding wisdom and code to the open source business intelligence software since he founded his company Webdetails five years ago. Webdetails develops custom visualizations and dashboards for clients exclusively Read More…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Todd Mostak had a turbulent experience with trying to process and plot tweets during the Arab Spring for his master’s thesis for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. So while taking a course on databases at MIT, he Read More…
Todd Mostak’s first tangle with big data didn’t go well. As a master’s student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard in 2012, he was mapping tweets for his thesis project on Egyptian politics during the Arab Spring Read More…
A day after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 170 people, an Instagram user named “amasonicvibes” posted a photo from the sideline on race day. The photo shows crowds Read More…
Unprecedented data growth, compliance and regulatory challenges and the need for speed in business has made the role of data governance ever more critical. On one hand, a proliferation of regulations and standards creates challenges for data governance, especially when Read More…
Mobile phones and tablets are handy business tools. But if workers do business computing on touch-screen tablets, then they need to change the way they explore and analyze data. Without a two-button mouse, options and tools hidden in a cascading Read More…
Creating a data visualization that reveals interesting relationships between data isn’t easy. Even if the data is clean and of high quality, the visualizer must mine the data for correlations and find the best way to represent them to his Read More…
There may be speed bumps along the way, but the federal government is driving toward a public GIS mapping of all the nation’s public roads—federal and state—by June 2014. The public road mapping project is another step in the federal Read More…
