Past Articles By Seth Grimes
What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research
Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers.
Q&A: IBM's Aaron Brown on Text Analytics for Legal Compliance
The burden of legal e-discovery mandates is driving demand for "knowledge discovery" technologies. The program director of IBM's Content Discovery and Search unit discussed the use of text analytics in legal work and other emerging applications.
Breakthrough Analysis: Make Your Data Tell a Story
Stories frame facts and organize information to bring you to a conclusion; the outcome can be a new way of seeing problems and deciding how to act.
Breakthrough Analysis: In BI Deployments, Methodology Does Matter
I've discovered that most BI vendors have their own formal methodologies. And some have been hiding in plain sight for years.
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Blog: Breakthrough Analysis
by Seth Grimes
A Visualization is Worth a Thousand Words
The New York Times publishes exceptional visualizations. A couple
this week stand out: "All of Inflation's Little Parts," graphing the average American's spending by category, and a map of the human "diseasome" that supports the article, "Redefining Disease, Genes and All." What distinguishes these visualizations is their success at communicating relationships along multiple data dimensions.
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05. 7.2008
Finding Design Failure with Microsoft Office Search Commands
Cheers to Microsoft Labs for their release of Search Commands, an Office 2007 add-in that "helps you find commands, options, wizards, and galleries in... Word, Excel, and PowerPoint." The embedded Guided Help calls it "a useful complement to the usual method of browsing for commands by clicking tabs on the Ribbon." But with Search Commands, Microsoft has adapted a findability fix that's quite common on the Web: Search as a crutch. Search Commands reinforces a point I've made in the past, that too often we look to search as a remedy for design lapses...
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04.29.2008
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Seth Grimes is an
analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana
Corporation. He consults on data management and analysis systems. 
