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Keywords: Reporting, Visual Analytics, On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP), Dashboards

Preamble

In the last chapter, we looked at all the various types of analytics – and It Is All Analytics! From analyzing unstructured information like text, to images, to structured information in relational databases. We now cover an old, but very important part of analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), and what is even more important these days – Visual BI.

Introduction

Let us start with an overview of where BI fits into the analytics picture. One thing for sure, people love current BI technology! An important takeaway of this chapter is that BI is not an island unto itself and it is not “old ...

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Chapter 5

What Are Business Intelligence (BI) and Visual BI?

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