Stunning Business Intelligence Visualizations… from 1870

FastCompany has a great article this week on the results of the 1870 census, and the hand-made graphics (“BI –2.0”?) that were made from the data (thanks to RadicalCartography.net and the Library of Congress). [NOTE -- the original version of this post erroneously said "1830" throughout] Here’s a selection of my favorites – click on each one to get the full graphic. US geology – the hand-shading is so much nicer to look at than computer-generated... [Read More...]

BI FAIL #2

Seth Grimes of Alta Plana gives us a great example of business intelligence failure this week on the site USAspending.gov. I wrote about this site and others in a post in July, Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency. Unfortunately, it turns out that it’s not so great, in that some of the data shown was completely false… (this is generally considered a reasonable baseline of things to avoid). Seth gave the example of the graphic on the... [Read More...]