metaphors
BI culture: not a science, more like an art form
99 and 44/100ths pure data
TDWI's just-departed education director Dave Wells wants the BI industry to put better focus on seeing trends in data and not so much on cleaning the data.
Facing up to the dashboard metaphor
After about three quarters of an oatmeal stout, my old friend Sam the BI developer wondered aloud, "What is the ideal dashboard?" There was no need to call Steve Few or Edward Tufte. I had the answer right away. (I had been sipping an oatmeal stout myself.)