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Comment on Strange L-shaped trends by Data Viz News [7] | Visual Loop

Data Viz News [7] | Visual Loop — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:48:48 +0000

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Comment on Chart: Education vs. GDP in Europe by Jorge Camoes

Jorge Camoes — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:11:36 +0000

I can’t send you a link to a specific table, but you can find the data easily on the Eurostat website.

Comment on Chart: Education vs. GDP in Europe by Mike Azer

Mike Azer — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:39:41 +0000

Jorge, I simply love your blog!
Ps. Can you point us to the source of your data? Thanks a million.

Comment on Making Excel maps without VBA by Jorge Camoes

Jorge Camoes — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:43:58 +0000

I have to try that. For this example, I didn’t want to use VBA and/or shapes.

Comment on Making Excel maps without VBA by Dmitry

Dmitry — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:36:38 +0000

That’s… a long way the alternative to this is to use and Excel hack: when you copy some shape, then select a series in a chart and paste, all series shapes (e.g. columns, bars, or markers) are being replaced with this shape. You can create series for each shape multiplied by number of colors you want to display; set XY-chart and set correct coordinates for each shape to keep the map consistent; then hide / display correct series to display a shape with color needed using IF formulas and N/A value to hide series on a chart.

Comment on Finally revealed: the optimal number of categories in a pie chart by Cédric

Cédric — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:52:03 +0000

Thank you Jorge for this great post, very easy to read and to understand. Thank you also Francis for the link to your blog which I really appreciated.

Comment on Qlikview vs Tableau? I have to choose and I’m not sure by Jonah

Jonah — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:59:14 +0000

I would give SiSense Prism a chance, enables individuals who are not professional developers to create and share interactive business reports and dashboards, which can then be viewed, customized, extended and drilled into by colleagues, executives, customers, suppliers and/or partners.

ElastiCube (SiSense’s technology) is disk-stored, which means the limit on its size is only tied to the size of available disk-storage, not RAM. Similar to other in-memory technologies, ElastiCube utilizes in-memory query processing for speed of calculation. But in contrast to these technologies, ElastiCube’s query processing engine (Elastic IQ) only loads and unloads data to and from RAM on-demand. This means RAM is only taken up by data you need access to right now, but the rest of the ElastiCube data is stored on disk, available instantly when requested.

Comment on Qlikview vs Tableau? I have to choose and I’m not sure by Mike t

Mike t — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:31:17 +0000

Hi mark, did you ever get the answers you were looking for?

We are currently looking at qlikview v tableau here so we have similar questions…

Comment on Qlikview vs Tableau? I have to choose and I’m not sure by Al DeLosSantos

Al DeLosSantos — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:58:51 +0000

Thanks Jorge. I’m actually signed up for a Tableau 8 tour event in Chicago. I’m trying to keep tabs on the progress of both firms.
Thanks for your blog.

Comment on Qlikview vs Tableau? I have to choose and I’m not sure by Jorge Camoes

Jorge Camoes — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:39:35 +0000

I am in the final stages of writing a book, and Tableau 8 will be available very soon. I expect to write a follow in the near future, maybe in April.