by Matt Manning Most data publishers are familiar with Tableau‘s data visualization tool through Tableau Public. Few, however, realize that the software can be a robust platform for delivering their data to subscribers. Tableau-based information services are visually stunning and ... Read more
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by Shyamali Ghosh “Using your proprietary data in news stories is the best possible kind of promotion for your paid data products because it shows clearly how valuable and useful your datasets are.” Words of wisdom from Infocommerce Group. Data ... Read more
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by Shyamali Ghosh Most open data — data that’s free to use, reuse, and redistribute — is public information that governments publish as a key part of “transparency” initiatives. It can be a boon to information services already skilled in ... Read more
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Heat maps—data represented graphically with individual values represented by colors—are an increasingly popular way to quickly convey a lot of information. To demonstrate this, we at IEI recently used a set of data on private investments made in the U.S. ... Read more
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by Shyamali Ghosh Guessing the size of a company in a given industry based on incomplete data is among the most common tasks in the information business. Salespeople, for example, need good “size” parameters to maximize their time and correctly ... Read more
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by Shyamali Ghosh This week Austin Texas again plays host to the South By Southwest Interactive conference, which continues to get bigger and bigger with an extremely diverse line-up of sessions. This year, though, “big data” is clearly the conference ... Read more
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