DataKind - Using data in the service of humanity...

DataKind (formerly known as Data Without Borders) brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations through a comprehensive, collaborative approach that leads to shared insights, greater understanding, and positive action through data in the service of humanity.
We are living inside a data revolution that is transforming the way we understand and interact with each other and the world, and it has only just begun. Data has the potential to make hidden relationships crystal clear, to be a common language between people who might never have spoken, to inspire collaboration, to off er metrics for decision making, and to turn seemingly unrelated ideas into powerful insights that can solve the most complex and intractable problems we face.
DataKind is a community of pioneering data scientists with the talent, commitment, and energy to open the door and show us the way...

http://datakind.org/

Excel Enthusiasts blog

A sole proprietorship concern founded by Ashish Mathur.

http://www.ashishmathur.com/knowledge-base/

Excel-User.com

Excel articles writen for the common user to help you improve your skills...

http://www.excel-user.com/

Effective Charts and Dashboards for Excel users

Welcome to the place where you can learn best practices for effective Excel charts in a corporate environment. In other words, where Tufte meets Excel. Learn how to get the most out of your data. Learn how to analyze and visually communicate quantitative information. excelcharts.com

http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/

Take a closer look at Oracle Business Intelligence solutions

Oracle delivers products for reporting, ad hoc query, OLAP, dashboards and scorecards, delivered on an architecturally unified foundation that is complete, open and integrated. Oracle’s BI Foundation allows you to build custom solutions tailored to your unique needs. Packaged BI applications that support cross functional operational processes, and performance management applications that support enterprise planning, and financial close and reporting processes.

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/business-analytics/business-intelligence/index.html

Use TileMill to make your own maps

"In addition to using the maps we create, you can design your own maps with TileMill. Make custom maps or design data overlays with our free map design application."

http://mapbox.com/tour/

SAP Business Objects Analysis

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions provide business users with access to unified information through a broad suite of BI tools for confident decision making and alignment across people and teams on a single, scalable BI platform.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e02d55c0-8784-2f10-0d9d-93a422c4f39f?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&55563991925188

SAP Dashboard Centre

There are two fundamental things every organisation can do to support profitable growth: one is to provide easy access to accurate, up-to-the-minute information to everyone that needs it; the other is to equip business people – rather than IT specialists – with the analytical tools to make sense of it all.
Dashboards do both. They promote a culture of information-based decision-making by simplifying complex ideas and presenting insight in a visual, easily-digested format. With interactive charts and gauges, it's easy to model the impact of change, predict outcomes with greater certainty, and monitor performance or risks against key indicators.

http://www.dashboardscentre.com/

Data-Ink.com

http://data-ink.com/

Google Fusion Tables

Gather, visualize and share data online

• Visualize and publish your data as maps, timelines and charts
• Host your data tables online
• Combine data from multiple people

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html

 

GeoCommons - Create compelling maps...

GeoCommons enables everyone to find, use and share geographic data and maps. Easily create rich interactive visualizations to solve problems without any experience using traditional mapping tools.

http://geocommons.com/#

Periscopic - Do good with data...

Periscopic is a socially-conscious data visualization firm that helps companies and organizations promote information transparency and public awareness.

http://www.periscopic.com/

Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment)

"Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography."

http://www.oicweave.org/

Excel as BI Front-End Tool (from Business Intelligence Blog)

"I’m very happy to announce that finally I submit the chapter for the next MVP Deep Dives Book that I’m a co-author with some other MVP professionals around the world. The book will be published next October and for sure I’ll give you here more news about it."

Pedro from BI Blog

http://pedrocgd.blogspot.com/2011/06/bi-book-excel-as-bi-front-end-tool.html

XlsWorkbookSecuring3D from VG-EXCEL-GEST

XlsWorkbookSecuring3D is a model (template) Excel editable with a three-dimensional system of protection.

1D - Anti-copy system which requires the introduction of a serial number license for each copy.

2D - Control system of users with different privileges.

3D - System of protection of workbooks and worksheets customizable for each sheet.

XlsWorkbookSecuring3D is a blank Excel workbook format exe for Excel 2007/2010, where you can build your spreadsheet model simple or advanced with or without macros during a free period (trial license usually 45 days, customizable) and passed only this time the workbook opens by license activation through a serial number unique license per copy provided by us.

You can use this model to develop your personal Excel projects or projects of your company or to sell their projects to others, with the assurance that they will not be copied or altered easily at least.

http://vg-excel-gest-products.weebly.com/index.html

Microsoft | PowerPivot

PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions, facilitates sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment, and enables IT organizations to increase operational efficiencies through Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2-based management tools.

http://www.powerpivot.com/index.aspx

QlikView - BI for the business user

http://www.qlikview.com/

Dundas - Interactive Dashboard Samples and Gallery

http://www.dundas.com/

Visual Complexity... Take a tour on this space!

You should not miss a stroll in the work presented in this space. 

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

New and improved functionality in MS Excel 2010 for PivotTables

What is one of the most important tool of Excel for you? I personally think that Pivot Tables should be the one… Is a great reporting tool for your needs and easy to use. Take the advantage of this to optimize your reports only with a few steps. You can summarize your data as you want… Sum, count, sort, average… The results are displayed in seconds.
Lose a little time to learn more about Pivot Tables and you see that you will not regret.