Have we lost the true meaning and purpose of Business Intelligence?

Have we lost the true meaning and purpose of Business Intelligence Companies in a variety of industries are still data-rich but information-poor and this ratio keeps increasing every day. The rate of data generation is so high that organizations simply cannot keep up with generating insights out of it. These enterprises lack the kind of … Read more

Create engaging visualization with brand new Sankey generator

Introducing brand new Sankey Visualizaton With the latest release of InfoCaptor, you can build Sankey Diagrams by just drag and drop operations. Sankey Visuals are one of the most powerful visualizations. It illustrates flows of any kind, where the width of each flow is based on its quantity. It gives complete bird’s eye view of … Read more

What is the most dangerous food at Olive Garden?

Olive Garden is one of the favorite destination for Italian food and today we got hold of the entire Olive Garden menu along with their nutrition data. A typical meal at Olive Garden starts with a drink, appetizers [free bread sticks], main dish and finally the desert. So going in the same sequence let see … Read more

Popularity of Tea, Coffee, Beer and Wine – Visualization

If number of searches were an indicator for gauging the popularity of a drink between Tea, Coffee, Beer and Wine then who wins the contest? Let us analyze who wins the popularity contest by comparing the number of searches for each of the terms. Data collection method: Each of the keywords Tea, Coffee, Beer and … Read more

Reddit 10 year growth analysis and visualization

In this article we will analyze the 10 year growth history of Reddit using simple visualizations. The data for these visualizations is available from this source [thanks to Justin @ Reddit] Let us compare the traffic stats The above data is available as monthly aggregates since 2008. So, the next question is how much of … Read more

Marriage and Divorce Rates Analysis Dashboard – CDC Data set

In this analysis we gather data from CDC for Marriage and Divorce rates across all the states of USA for past several years. As usual the bulk of the time is consumed in the data gathering, munging and preparation step for the analysis. All the data for each year is manually copy/pasted from the website … Read more

InfoCaptor does Big Data with Cloudera Impala and Hive

InfoCaptor now officially works and certified with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution and specifically with Hive and Impala. Earlier InfoCaptor supported only JDBC protocol but now along with CDH integration, it has introduced ODBC protocol to take advantage of efficient drivers from Cloudera (Cloudera – Simba drivers) and provide more platform connectivity options. The integration has been … Read more

American footbal players who died during their career – Data Visualization

This is a data analysis and visualization for players of American football who died while still on a team roster or a free agent. Included are players in the NFL, arena football, and college who have died as a result of team bus and plane accidents such as the plane crashes by Marshall and Wichita … Read more