As a follow-up to my work with the Time Series algorithm, I’ve been playing with the SSAS clustering algorithm over several cups of Bald Guy coffee. One will generally use the clustering algorithm to segment “things” (customers into “customer clusters”, for example) based on similarities between attributes that describe the “things” ...
In 2010, the install point of PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer isn’t overly discoverable, but Microsoft has done a good job documenting how to get the thing loaded. Most of the time, our instructions tell you to go to a BI Center site, and install it from there. You can also install it ...
Over the holidays, I decided to experiment with some business intelligence technology that I normally don’t have the opportunity work with – QlikTech’s QlikView. In a nutshell, I took Microsoft’s Contoso Retail sample DW, brought portions of it into QlikView, and created several dashboards. Might as well blog about the experience, ...
Yesterday, a machine which had been happily creating PowerPivot snapshots for me stopped doing so. If I had taken the time to search on keywords like “PowerPivot”, “snapshot”, and “IE9”, I would have landed on Gavin’s blog and saved myself some time, but whatever…it was a good learning experience. When the ...
I love PowerPivot. And I really, really love the visualization in the management dashboard that allows one to see which reports are active across time. I’ve thought to myself many a time, “Self, I sure like that visualization. I wish I could show my OWN data inside that thing, however”. So ...