Near in 2011

People asked me why I am not blogging on so called big events like recent Microstrategy World 2011 and SAP’s release of BO4. I tried to avoid the answer, but here it is: I think that blogging about the Dimensionality of Charts is more important topic for Data Visualization and this is what I will do soon (done!). Update: I posted on this blog about Dimensionality of Visible Data and added a new page about Dimensionality of Charts in a very beginning of March of 2011.

I observed a huge spike of startup activity in Greater Boston area in 2011 and some startups show me their desperate need for Data Visualization. I had approximately the same discussion with them:

they generate huge datasets, like application and user logs or network traffic, online and streaming advertisements impressions etc.
what advise I can give can them, so they can choose between development of own visualization “platform” or they will partner with DV Leaders?

My answer depends on situation but I noticed that in most cases I came up with the same advise:

do not re-invent the wheel and use existing tools (for time-to-market) instead of creating own “intellectual property”. Funny that most choose to develop own DV tools, because they think they can do it cheaper and better then Spotfire, Qlikview or Tableau. That stupidity prompted me to accelerate the writing for DV Architecture and DV Development pages, which was under constructions for a few months.

I guess these pages will be published soon (hopefully in May 2011) – I want to clarify my arguments and help to prevent the waste of time and money for multiple companies.

The picture below is not from my neighborhood but rather from my dream about Spring, since awful Winter 2010-2011 (I got 7+ feet of snow to remove from my driveway during last 4 months, see the 2nd picture from the top of this page) hopefully will end soon and to celebrate that I am planning to blog about Vizubi (done!),