May 03

Presenting statistics with motion

Seeing data presented this way is still a rare event yet showing changes across a period of time in motion rather than a series of static charts can deliver a much clearer perspective.


Mar 01

Social Media judges the Olympics

Techcrunch has an interesting article: How We Hate NBC’s Olympic Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown.

NBC Olympics Sentiment Analysis

The statistics are coming from a couple of different ‘Sentiment Analysis’ services that track what people are saying about brands online. What’s interesting is how easy it has been for these services to gather the data…


Jan 27

Analyse and Act on Social Media Trends

Microsoft has a proof of concept built on SharePoint – Looking Glass – exploring how to analyse and act on social media trends that may be of interest to anyone in a communications role, internal or external:

Wafting the smoke aside and stepping around the mirrors, the concept is sound…


Nov 21

From PowerPivot to Pivot

Hot on the heels of announcing the new PowerPivot for Excel at the SharePoint conference recently, Microsoft’s Live Labs have announced another new tool with a very similar name: Pivot. So it seems we have PowerPivot for Excel and Pivot for the web. There’s no mention of whether or not the products are technically related [...]


Oct 26

Introducing Microsoft PowerPivot

So much for publishing soundbites during the recent SharePoint 2009 Conference. What can I say, I got distracted Here’s a delayed one. Microsoft announced a new product at the conference that has been going under the codename Project Gemini – PowerPivot PowerPivot is being released as an add-on component to Excel 2010 (licensing not available [...]


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