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Treemaps, Trumps Tariffs and AI

The Goody I Found (TGIF) this week are some treemaps about the value of goods imported to the U.S. in 2023. I found them in the FlowingData newsletter – originally from the Washington Post: https://lnkd.in/eY3eXTBG

I’m

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A cosmic milestone in the history of music

Something weird and nerdy today: a nice ‘The Goody I Found’ (TGIF) that combines my enthusiasm for music and visualisation.

Last week I found this LinkedIn post by RobertoMensa: the data and an Excel visualisation of

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There is a BETA of graphomate chartrix

We’ve been working hard for over 18 months and this week we finished our first BETA of the graphomate chartrix for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

You can get a first impression of our chartrix by

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SAP Business unleashed?

Yesterday, SAP unveiled the ‘new’ SAP Business Data Cloud with much fanfare.
With charismatic hand gestures, Christian Klein and others presented “SAP’s biggest launch in a DECADE” – according to Timo Eliott.
https://lnkd.in/eprGini4
 
Or, as Klein is quoted

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Merry Christmas!

The last goodie I found this year! An older favourite of mine and not really a visualisation …
On the other hand, comics are also visualisations in a broader sense, and as a big fan of

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You are so beautiful …

This time a post that really deserves to be called ‘the goody I found’:
simply beautiful, almost art!
A new, native Power BI widget by Nicholas Lea-Trengrouse. He calls it Parastichy Visual and I find it exceptionally

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Less is a bore …

It’s Friday morning and time again for “The goody I found (TGIF!)”… … this week it’s a Power BI Sales Dashboard on linkedin that caught my eye.
https://lmy.de/jeYxX

As you can see in the screenshot, the image

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