I was interested to see if there was a visual way to get a feel for how members of congress arrayed across the political spectrum.
To do this, I thought it would be useful to mash up ratings of sitting US House and Senate members, by various interest groups. Looking for data, I found a site [...]
Everyone agrees that BI (business intelligence) needs to be “easy”. But what really defines easy? And easy for whom (technical implementation and support teams, analysts and report writers or business management and decision makers?)
With all due respect, the bar is set pretty low to make things easier for technical teams—traditional BI tools are so [...]
There’s a lot of talk about “Easy BI” and “business intelligence for everyone”. And for obvious reasons: the current state of the art is hard to use and has required companies to scale up on report writers and other personnel with technical-to-business “translation” skills. This swath of infrastructure is responsible for getting still-pretty-raw data from [...]
