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Blog list: Blog Role

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:32:46 GMT

Blog Role

Don Box
Ray Ozzie
Channel9
Charles Fitzgerald
Platformonomics
Robert Scoble
Of course...
Steven Sinofsky
Vic Gundotra
The Map Room
Chris Anderson
All things Avalon
Chris DiBona
Google Guy
Jen Miksovsky
UI Research
Jensen Harris
Office 12 Ribbon Stuff
BSM Team Blog
Jamie Thomson
SSIS Goodness
Brian Welcker's Direct Reports
Reporting Services
Ian Tien
Business Scorecard Mgr.
Chris Webb
MDX Guy
Nick Barclay
BI Blog (one of the best)
Tim Pash Infopath Forms
Infopath Nuggets
Mosha Pasumansky
MDX and OLAP Blog
SQL Server Data Mining
Excellent Examples for DM
JamieMAC's Weblog
PM Dev for DM on SQL
Zulfiqar's DM Blog
DM Learn as you go...
Mike Gannotti
Sharepoint/Digital Media
Eric Rockey
Visio Data Viz Blog
Visio Insights
MSDN Blogs by Categories
Just in case you need something to read...
Lester WPF
Win Presentation Framework Blog
Direct X Tom Schultz
CPMInsider
UnOfficial BSM Site
David Pae's Sharepoint Blog
Ramana Rao
Visualization Visionary
Virtual Earth Blog
Reed Sutton
SQL Server 2005 Topics
Intentional Software
Charles Simonyi's Software Development company.
UI Patterns & Techniques
Great web site for UI/web page/Graphic Design best practices.
MSDN Technet Bloggers
Ben Tamblyn
PerformancePoint
Enterprise Dashboard examples
Dundas and Microcharts examples
Designing Interactions
Single best site on the web for learning interaction science and best ideas. Highly recommended.
Putting People First
Design Best Practices
Don Dodge
This guy has great insight...
Mark Cuban
Opinion? Mark Cuban? Nah!
Janne Pyykkö's BI Blog
BI, DW, OLAP, charting, reporting, data visualization, dashboards, web user interfaces, searching for best practices
Communication Nation
Bill Morein
Visualization in Microsoft Visio
Adrian Downes
BI expert - coverage on BSM and PPS
Dan Meyers' BI Blog
Synaptic Transmissions
P2P Communications
Eugene Asahara
NibblesTutorials.net
XAML Snacks for hungary developers. SilverLight XAML Demos
WPF Wonderland
Wired Prarie
WPF/Silverlight
Liquid Boy
Silverlight/WPF Jock
MC's Sandpit
WPF/Silverlight
ChemSpider
Outstanding Web Service & Search for Chem Structures and Properties
The Chemical Blogspace Blog
Egon Willighagen Researcher at Wageningen University & Research Center
Pixel in Gene
WPF Site
Depth First
Rich Apodaka - Chem Viz
Jeff Barr
Amazon Web Services Architect
Michael Peters
Data Visualization Expert at Oculus
Mike Naimoli
Director of Microsoft Life Sciences

Book List: Book List

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:20:10 GMT

Edward Tufte:: Beautiful Evidence
Spark Lines!
James Bamford: Body of Secrets
A relatively recent view of signals intelligence.
Kenneth Allard: Business as War
Comparison of War Intel to Business Scenarios.
Elizabeth Vitt/Michael Luckevich/Stacia Misner: Business Intelligence
Focuses on Tech side - I'm not a big fan of this book - but a generally good overview of the market and techniques.
Larry Kahaner: Competitive Intelligence
Excellent book - how to organize your BI team in your organization.
ZhaoHui Tang & Jamie MacLennan: Data Mining with SQL Server 2005
Fantastic source for DM - rich with code and in-depth descriptions of the algorithms.
Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions
Incredible Book - a new favorite of mine.
Edward Tufte: Envisioning Information
Narratives of Space and Time.
Stephen Few: Information Dashboard Design
The right way to build Dashboards and Scorecards. Great examples of Good and Bad across all vendor offerings.
John Keegan: Intelligence in War
A look at when Intel made a difference either way in war scenarios.
James Bamford: Puzzle Palace
An older (1980), but considered one of the best books on signalsintel.
by Kurt Hanks, Larry Belliston: Rapid Viz : A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas
Nick Barclay and Adrian Downes: Rational Guide to Business Scorecard Manager 2005
Great Resource for building scorecards and report views.
Bill Buxton: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)
Great design book by a great designer.
Gary Klein: Sources of Power - How people make Decisions
There are no expert decision makers...
Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
How to present information and evidence in an Excellent, clear manner.
Edward Tufte: Visual Explanations
Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Dave Konopka: Windows Vista Sidebar: Your visual blueprint for developing cool gadgets for the Windows OS (Visual Blueprint)
Great book on Gadgets!

Custom List: Favorite BI Web Sites

Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:47 GMT

Favorite BI Web Sites

DMReview
Online BI Trade Periodical
Intelligent Enterprise
Online BI Periodical
Oculus
Visualization Vendor for Dotnet
Tom Sawyer
Graph/Network Software
Dundas
Killer Charts, Gauges, and Diagram Tools
Tableau Software
Some cool 2D Visualization Tools - not for the masses, but a neat Knowledge Discovery Tool.
IDV Solutions
Excellent Web service Based Geo-Spatial Partner.
B-Eye Network
Information Aesthetics
Great ideas for Visualizing Info
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Channel 9
TechMeme
General good overview of the technology industry.
Technorati
BI Blog List
Data is Nature
Ed Tufte
Dynamic Diagrams
Graphic Facilitation
Info Vis Wiki
Statistical Modeling
Visual Complexity
Xplane
Machine Learning