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Data Driven Digest for June 5
We love data visualizations because they make abstract things (like numbers) more concrete, and thereby allow us to understand them better, and detect hidden patterns, using the visual parts of our...
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Data Driven Digest for June 12
Excitement (and a little anxiety) is sweeping through the OpenText Analytics office – home of the Data Driven Digest – as the Golden State Warriors make their first run at the NBA Finals in 40 years,...
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Data Driven Digest for June 19
This Sunday marks the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. As the days get warmer and longer, many of us think about getting healthier and going outdoors. Data visualization can reveal...
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Data Driven Digest for June 26
The Periodic Table, conceived of nearly 150 years ago, has had a huge impact on the study of chemistry. When it was created, the Table organized the known chemical elements, but its true genius lay in...
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Data Science and Mobile Devices: Joined at the Hip
What qualifies as a mobile device? Believe it or not, we had a brief – and surprisingly illuminating – debate at the OpenText Analytics office the other day that started with this question. Let me...
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Data Driven Digest for July 3
It’s a holiday week: Wednesday was Canada Day, and tomorrow is Independence Day in the United States. Fairness dictates that North America not get all of the attention, so the Eurozone is the subject...
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Data Driven Digest for July 10
Stock markets were all over the news this week, and since trading today is data-driven, visualizations featured prominently in reports on Wednesday’s NYSE freeze and the ongoing struggles in China. (We...
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Introducing iHub, Trial Edition
What can you accomplish in 45 days? You can do something silly like write one tweet about cheese, keep a Twinkie fresh or even raise a Japanese Beetle from birth to death. Better yet, you can do...
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Data Driven Digest for July 17
Yesterday’s Emmy nominations demonstrate television’s growing embrace of video streaming services – and, in particular, the expanding influence of Netflix on the TV landscape. Today’s Data Driven...
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Data Driven Digest for July 24
Marriage is on the minds of data scientists and data journalists this summer. That’s our suspicion, based on the many blog posts, articles, and data visualizations that have come onto the radar at the...
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Data Driven Digest for July 31
Data visualization exists to help us learn things from, and about, data. It helps us answer questions like these: What are the trends in the data? What data is most common and most unusual? What...
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Big Data Analytics: What It Is, Why You Want It
“The promise of big data is the ability to make predictions based on it. Information can be viewed and analyzed, trends can be understood, and correlations can be plotted. The challenge, of course, is...
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Data Driven Digest for August 7
We love Twitter. We love to tweet, we love to follow data visualization experts, and we’d love to have you follow us at @OT_Analytics. But for all of Twitter’s fun and value, it often makes headlines...
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Data Driven Digest for August 14
Forgive us in California for being obsessed with water. Our unprecedented drought has caused our brains to focus on the wet stuff, so that’s the theme of this week’s Data Driven Digest. In three data...
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Data Driven Digest for August 21
The second* data visualization we all learned in school was the Cartesian coordinate system. By plotting figures on a two-dimensional graph, we learned the relationship between numbers and space,...
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Data Driven Digest for August 28: Treemaps
The first treemap was created around 1990, for a reason that seems laughable today: 14 people in a University of Maryland computer lab shared an 80-megabyte disk drive, and one of them – professor Ben...
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Data Driven Digest for September 4: The Seasons
It’s Labor Day Weekend in North America – the traditional end of summer, if not the season’s end as marked by the equinox. To acknowledge the impending shift to autumn, this week’s Data Driven Digest...
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Data Driven Digest for September 11: Clouds
There’s big news at OpenText this week: Big Data Analytics is now available on the OpenText Cloud. This exciting event got us thinking about actual clouds – you know, the kind up in the sky – and other...
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Exploring iHub Examples – First in a Series
There’s a big-box retail store not far from the OpenText Analytics office in San Mateo, California. Some of us (ahem) have been known to visit there at lunchtime to score free samples for lunch. And...
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Exploring iHub Examples: Integration Framework
This post is the second in a series exploring the free example applications that come bundled with OpenText Actuate Information Hub (iHub), Trial Edition. Read the first post here. The ability to...
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