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Lars

Duck or Rabbit?

This weeks “The goody I found” is kind of an oldie – but goldie – and actually quite suitable …
The rabbit–duck illusion was first published in 1892 and it’s all about perspective. It can be

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Index for Indices

Trump’s customs madness is currently affecting everything.
It’s fascinating how one man can influence the stock markets. A rogue who thinks of manipulation …

His rival Hillary Clinton tweeted a very nice visualisation of the stock market

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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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Nothing is certain, except death and taxes

Germany goes to the polls in 3 weeks and today’s Goody I Found (TGIF) is all about the parties’ election promises on income taxation.

Together with the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), the Süddeutsche Zeitung

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