Mr. Donald Farmer gave a lecture yesterday, May 31 st 2010, at the Israeli BI User Group. This is what I summed up from the session. Predictive Analytics A good predictive analytics project would have: Actionable - you get useful information from it Innovative - gives something new, new insight from the model Trustworthy - the model makes sense Seamless - part of your everyday operations, so that it will get used more easily by the users "All models are wrong, but some are useful" George...
I read a while ago in Chris Webb's blog about project Dallas which really got me interested. Quoting from the site itself: " Microsoft® Codename " Dallas " is a new service allowing developers and information workers to easily discover, purchase and manage premium data subscriptions in the Windows Azure platform. " So what does it mean? Basically that you have a public data source in the cloud that you can connect to and use for your own applications. And why am I so psyched...
I have recently built a data mart containing all the data of budgeting and accounting in SQL Server 2005 and created a Report Model in Report Builder for it. My users were looking for a flexible way to define different grouping on the data, without having to ask for my assistance. Defining new formulas in Report Builder isn't the most comfortable thing to do (specifically if they get complex and long), so we had to find another way. There was a suggestion of creating a view in the database with...