Extend BIRT Interactive Viewer with Row Highlighting [Code]
First in a series. Actuate’s BIRT Interactive Viewer, part of BIRT iHub and BIRT iHub F-Type, is the go-to product for putting personalized BIRT content in all users’ hands. To make this hard-working...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for October 17
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View Article3 Questions: Gloria Lau Discusses Data Science
Gloria Lau likes to say that her career in data science started “before there was even a thing called data science.” She was a PhD candidate at Stanford University, researching legal informatics –...
View ArticleiTAC Helps Manufacturers Improve Operations with BIRT iHub [Case Study]
We think we live in a digital world, but manufacturing still touches every aspect of our lives today. The cars we drive, the clothes we wear, the tools we use, and even the food we eat today is the...
View Article3 Questions: Naomi B. Robbins Discusses Graphs
Naomi B. Robbins worked at Bell Labs in the 1990s – the same era when William S. Cleveland, another employee of that famed R&D organization, authored the seminal work The Elements of Graphing...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for October 24
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View ArticleExtend BIRT Interactive Viewer with a Pop-up Dialog Box [Code]
Second in a series. In a previous BIRT Interactive Viewer Extension (found here), a few lines of jQuery code let you add row highlighting capability to BIRT tables. In this post we extend that idea...
View ArticleData as Differentiator: Actuate Helps Phototype Become Trusted Advisor to...
The people of Phototype set a goal for their company a few years ago: to become a trusted advisor to all of their clients, not just another vendor. The reasoning was simple: Clients of trusted...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for October 31
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View ArticleData Driven Digest for November 7
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View ArticleData Driven Digest for November 14
Each Friday we share some favorite reporting on, and examples of, data driven visualizations and embedded analytics that came onto our radar in the past week. Use the “Subscribe” link at left and we’ll...
View ArticleData Driven Summit: Around the World with Twitter
As Actuate planned its worldwide series of Data Driven Summits, we promoted the hashtag #DataDrivenSummit. We’ve enjoyed following that hashtag around the globe as social media users attended the...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for November 21
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View Article12 Questions for Providers of Embedded Analytics Tools [Infographic]
It’s holiday shopping season, and many of us will head downtown or to the mall to window-shop. (Even if we prefer to purchase online.) As human beings we’re naturally drawn to beautiful things,...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for November 28
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View ArticleDelivering Extreme BIRT iHub Performance [White Paper]
Search online for “difficult jobs” and the lists you get are predictable: Firefighters, emergency room doctors, police officers, crab fishermen and coal miners usually make the cut. I’d add another...
View ArticleExtend BIRT with Font Symbols [Code]
Third in a series. Font symbols (like those above) are a great way to embed graphics into BIRT reports and dashboards. We like them because they are vector rather than raster graphics, meaning they...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for December 5
Each Friday we share some favorite reporting on, and examples of, data driven visualizations and embedded analytics that came onto our radar in the past week. Use the “Subscribe” link at left and we’ll...
View ArticleAnalytics Maturity Curve or Landscape? [Webinar]
3D is hot right now. Just look around: 3D printers are sold at Home Depot. Twice as many 3D movies were released this year compared with 2013. Minecraft has sold some 54 million copies and was...
View ArticleData Driven Digest for December 12
Each Friday we share some favorite reporting on, and examples of, data driven visualizations and embedded analytics that came onto our radar in the past week. Use the “Subscribe” link at left and we’ll...
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