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Microsoft throws down the gauntlet in business intelligence
[company]Microsoft[/company] is not content to let Excel define the company’s reputation among the world’s data analysts. That’s the message the company sent…
Read MoreHands on with Watson Analytics: Pretty useful when it’s working
Last month, [company]IBM[/company] made available the beta version of its Watson Analytics data analysis service, an offering first announced in September. It’s…
Read MoreMedium open sources a data visualization tool that’s pretty handy
Publishing platform startup Medium has open sourced a data visualization tool the company used to look at internal data. The tool, called Charted, is free, easy and actually pretty useful if you have simple data-analysis needs.…
Read MoreTelling stories from tweets is about more than time and number
Twitter data editor Simon Rogers took the stage at Gigaom's Roadmap conference to talk about making sense of messy data with good visualizations. It can be hard work, but also very enlightening when done right.…
Read MoreTableau CEO says the company’s biggest challenge now is talent
In an interview with Gigaom on Thursday, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot spoke about the company's $100 million third quarter and the challenges it faces as it continues to grow. He doesn't suspect Salesforce.com's new analytics service will be one of them.…
Read MoreTableau hits the $100M revenue mark in third quarter
Tableau continues to grow at a fast pace, hitting the $100 million mark for the first time in the third quarter. Although there are plenty of startups willing to point out its weaknesses, Tableau has lots of room to grow and the money to do it.…
Read MoreThe most important thing about Salesforce.com’s new data service might be its scale
It's a good thing Salesforce.com has "dramatically" expanded its data center footprint in order to support its new Wave analytics service, because the product's performance could ultimately decide how it fares against other next-generation applications that understand the visualization just as much.…
Read MoreZoomData raises $17M to become the visualization layer for big data
ZoomData has raised another $17 million for its visualization technology that was built with stream processing and iPads in mind, but has since made the leap to historical data and desktops, as well.…
Read MoreIBM goes freemium with new natural language analytics service
IBM is getting into the freemium space, targeting individual business users with a new data analysis service called Watson Analytics. It helps users analyze data using natural language queries, and could help IBM fend off the myriad products threatening its analytics business from the bottom up.…
Read MoreHow Silicon Valley spends its money on Capitol Hill
I visualized a trove of data from MapLight about the issues on which internet companies are lobbying Congress. Here are the results of that, as well as links to the raw data.…
Read MoreWith Project Elastic, Tableau is targeting consumers and tablets
Tableau Software is taking the wraps off a new project called Elastic, which will bring the company's style of simplified data analysis to tablet users. The goal is to let small businesses and individuals enjoy analyzing their data, without the pain of mastering desktop tools.…
Read MoreTableau hits $90M in revenue, 82 percent growth in second quarter
Tableau Software beat Wall Street's expectations and continued its skyrocketing revenue growth. Its $90.7 million second quarter represents 82 percent annual revenue growth.…
Read MoreA tiny research team at Tableau is building tomorrow’s UX for data
Tableau Software was born of academic research, and as the company grows it's building an R&D division to help build a pipeline of innovation. Jock Mackinlay, a Tableau VP who heads up the team, explains how it works and what it's working on.…
Read MoreTwitter visualizes a World Cup shootout in tweets
Twitter has released an analysis of activity on the social network during the overtime shootout period in last week’s World Cup match…
Read MoreDropbox buying analytics startup Parastructure would make a lot of sense
Dropbox is acquiring a data visualization startup called Parastructure, according to TechCrunch. It’s one of those deals where nobody is talking yet, but…
Read MoreElasticsearch raises $70M and is taking JSON analysis global
Elasticsearch, the company behind a very popular open source suite for indexing, searching and visualizing JSON documents, has raised a $70 million series C round of venture capital. Just more than two years since being founded, the company has raised $104 million.…
Read MoreIt looks like Tableau for Mac is coming soon
Tableau Software (s data) has been on fire over the past couple years, but a big knock against the company has been that…
Read MoreDataPad, an analytics startup for SMBs, launches with $1.7M in seed funding
Analytics startup DataPad emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, along with $1.7 million in funding from a list of prominent investors. Its trying to provide simple, attractive analytics for the little guy, which is a promising but difficult space.…
Read MoreTableau’s first quarter: 86 percent annual growth
Data analytics and visualization specialist Tableau Software announced its first-quarter financial results on Monday, touting $74.6 million in revenue and an 86…
Read MoreConsolidation looms in business intelligence, as TIBCO buys Jaspersoft for $185M
TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft in a move that could signal further consolidation in the business intelligence space. Vendors such as Tableau and Microsoft dominate in terms mindshare and capabilities, leaving other big players playing catch up by opening their wallets.…
Read MoreResearchers turn spreadsheets into visualizations for tablets
Carnegie Mellon researchers have created an application that visualizes tabular data and lets users analyze it using hand gestures. It's not the first attempt to rethink analytics for a mobile world, but it's interesting and a sign of things to come.…
Read More5 things that will remake big data in the next 5 years
Forget about how much data a disk can store or whether companies will use Hadoop. The questions for big data going forward are how they'll use Hadoop, how intelligent our systems can actually become and how we'll keep them in check.…
Read MoreTableau, Splunk partner on a new connector
Tableau (s data) and Splunk (s splk), two of the more successful (and ubiquitous) data startups turned public companies over the past…
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