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Ben Shneiderman
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 …
read moreA 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 …
read moreSAP BW is dead, long live SAP BW … again and again and again
Today I want to follow up on my post about the SAP Business Unleashed event. A little more beef … 😉
The goody I found this week is a slide by SAP expert Matthias Stemmler under …
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 …
read moreSAP 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 …
Where‘s the beef? Or: Give me a bunch of burgers!
At the end of last month, the Linkedin algorithm flushed a post into my timelime that left me somewhat speechless: An animated(!) image of a hamburger whose ingredients represented the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) …
read moreMerry 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 …
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 …
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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