Have you tried installing the Lotus Notes 8.x client on your Mac with Mountain Lion or Mavericks, and failed? Claudio has an easy-to-follow solution for you.
Category: Project Mgmt.
A short and sweet introduction to Pentaho Data Integration
Whenever I have to create or maintain a Pentaho Data Integration scheduled job I have to go back to the Pentaho wiki or google for use cases. Although I should, I never remember the specifics and going through 2007 forum posts and outdated documentation is always a pain. Recently, I stumbled upon Instant Pentaho Data… Continue reading A short and sweet introduction to Pentaho Data Integration
How to improve your Business Objects charts
Business Objects, SAP’s BI platform, is notoriously bad for data visualization. Somehow, it empowers the developers to make all the wrong decisions at the same time and create really ugly and unusable “dashboards”. Lately, I’ve seen my share of ugly bobip visualizations, like the one above. Which would seem ok but it commits the greatest… Continue reading How to improve your Business Objects charts
How to present statistics without boring your audience
A few days ago I found a very valuable, yet free resource for improving the way we report statistics. Making Data Meaningful is a series of short, sweet and free ebooks created by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe as a practical tool to improve the way charts, tables and statistical data are presented… Continue reading How to present statistics without boring your audience
Drawing the world by hand
At Lucerne’s Gletschergarten, among old maps, models and reliefs of the Swiss Alps, we’ll find an expo from Ueli Läuppi, a local cartographer that makes hand drawings and colorings of maps using a particular projection that highlights a thorough representation of the mountains. Moreover, Läuppi has moved his studio to the museum and on certain days… Continue reading Drawing the world by hand