From the monthly archives: December 2010

In closing out our 12 Days of Analytics at FortiusOne we were looking for a timely analysis to perform. Also, we wanted to demonstrate one of the most powerful tools in the platform – creating your own analytic widget that you can share with the community or just a group of users. Today was the [...]

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In the previous ten days of analytics we went through the new analytics tools.  Now I know the holidays are usually about sharing and being with others, but on the eleventh day let’s just stop and be selfish for a moment.  What does that mean?  Let’s analyze ourselves!

There has been previous Kate-analysis in other [...]

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Yesterday, on the 9th Day of Analytics Matt Dew talked about “simplifying your life.” Today we are going in a different direction and are doing “simple analytics.” On the new analytics features in GeoIQ is the ability to do addition and subtraction across columns in your dataset. Seemingly a simple ability, it can [...]

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Over the past eight days my colleagues have introduced exciting new GeoIQ features that allow anyone to perform powerful analytics against their data, but despite their wide applicability and ease of use not one of  the new analytic features is capable of automatically providing answers . . . after all is said and done, you [...]

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Today we are again visited by the ghost of analytics future – Prediction Across Datasets. On the 3rd day of Analytics, Kate showed us prediction within a dataset. Most other analytics tell us what [...]

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It has been fun to watch different members of the GeoCommons team provide their take on each of the analytics we’ve created. This is really just the tip of the iceburg of what is possible. The real excitement is what analytics you, the user, will create. In addition the pre-baked analytical tool you also have [...]

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Today we’re going to have some fun, okay, fun in the geeky GIS analyst kind of way (the only kind I know!). Nevertheless, if you follow this blog…then…well you know what I mean.

Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. Remember when you all were kids, still learning how to become the best geo-spatial [...]

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Carrying on with The 12 Analytics of Christmas, let’s take a look at one of the simplest yet most powerful analytics feature – Buffer. In a nutshell, Buffer allows you to set a perimeter around your points, lines or polygons by a specified distance. So if you want to show a ‘noise’ perimeter [...]

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On the 2nd Day of Analytics Andrew Turner highlighted GeoIQ’s Merge capability, which allows users to consolidate the data and geographic features of multiple datasets into a single unified dataset.  Merge simplifies the analysis process by allowing several small datasets to be united and analyzed together,  but what if I have a very [...]

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In the original 12 Days…song today is normally “3 French Hens,” today instead we are going to predict within datasets. Previously on the 12 Day of Analytics we learned about merge and aggregation. Both of these functions serve as building blocks to other analysis. Today’s functionality is the ability to “Predict within a [...]

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