links for 2007-12-21

You’ll learn basic visualization principles, how to choose the right kind of display for your purposes, and how to provide interactive features to design entire interfaces around large, complex data sets.

(tags: visualization datavisualizationandgraphing bi charts graphs book)

First problem is that dashboards are still backward looking. Surely the endgame for BI must involve some kind of predicting of the future, some looking forward?

(tags: bi dashboards)

Hubbert (Forrester) says that SMEs are probably better served by first ensuring they have comprehensive, robust monitoring solutions in place, augmenting them with a service analysis product such as those from Netuitive or ProactiveNet.

(tags: bsm business-service-management forrester)