I do a lot of work with Life Science/Pharmas being in the Pharma Corridor of NJ/PA.  This is an amazing video showing different cellular visualizations.  In just the small amount of work and research I've done, I would have to say that Pharma and Life Science has the deepest, most amazing work being done in almost any industry.

 

Reed has published a great guide for calling SSIS packages and how to deply and install the pieces to do this...

 

 

Thanks, Reed!

Jamie - has a great post on Sampling Nested Tables over on http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/TipsNTricks/4048.aspx.

 

This is a feature that is unique to SQL 2005 Data Mining.

 

Chris Webb has a great posting on building local cubes in a step by step guide...

 

I recently got a great book called Web Harvesting by Richard Hackathorn.  It's main topic is the unification of web-based, textual information harvested from web engines and other sources and the traditional data warehouse (LOB telemetry).  This book is the first of its kind to talk deeply about this serious topic and layout the future directions for BI in enterprises.  It's also the first book to take seriously the IT/business "gulf" when it comes to Business Intelligence.  Including topics such as:

• Countering skepticism
• Working with the Datawarehouse Team
• Positioning the web harvesting operation in the data management chain

Critics will say this book is ahead of its time, I say it's high time someone talked about this eventuality with authority.  Kudos to you Richard!

http://www.amazon.com/Farming-Warehouse-Kaufmann-M...

 

 

OK, so I've added a photo album part to my space, to allow you a look at my life outside of the BI space.

 

Don't be too alarmed...

 

Take a look at his site: 

http://blogs.technet.com/reeds/

Here's a site for developing sparkline visualizations in C#

 

Updated Rollup 4 for Business Scorecard Manager now available

Ramana Rao, the discoverer/co-discoverer of the Hyperbolic Tree for visualization is leaving Inxight.  In looking at his blog, he sure is being courted by some interesting companies (like SAP for example).

 

Here's a link to some of his great whitepapers regarding Sensemaking and Visualization...

 

My favorite is the See and Go Manifesto. 

Sixty Years of Search and Beyond [May 2005, ACM Queue] A history of search starting 60 years ago as context to broadened PARC and Inxight ideas related to Intelligent Information Access. It concludes with predictions for 2020 that basically amount to a coming true of the vision.

From Unstructured Data to Actionable Intelligence [Nov 2003, IEEE IT Professional] Based on the Sept/03 draft, Rich Interaction with Content, this article describes the key beyond search technologies of categorization, extraction, and visualization. Also covers an abstract architecture for using these and the applications in the leading areas of government intelligence, electronic publishing, and pharma research.

Leveraging Content in Enterprise Knowledge Processes [Dec 2003] To appear in Knowledge Scaffolding: How Practitioners Use Knowledge Management Tools, Butterworth-Heienemann, July 2004. Based on the Oct/2003 issue of Information Flow. This paper focuses on broadening perspectives on the use of content and content analysis technologies and their role in enabling a new class of "discovery" applications.

See and Go Manifesto [Sept 1999, Interaction Magazine] Meant as a reflection on the power of "wide widgets" aimed at the user interface research and development community, but given that wide widgets still haven't been fully absorbed into mainstream graphical user interfaces, it's still a relevant rant or rallying cry.

Information Visualization and the Next Generation Workspace [1995] I drafted this paper in 1995 on Information Visualization, with Scientific American in mind, but a European publisher of similar magazines, La Recherche and Mundo Cientifico, picked it for French and Spanish versions, which unfortunately derailed the Scientific American submission. So finally I "published" it here in English upon discovering it in old files in Dec 2003.

For posterity's sake, I've added his blog to my BlogRoll.