bradinthehouse - Slashdot User

Comment Tableau All The Way (Score 1) 180

by bradinthehouse on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @01:17AM (#26525351) Attached to: Visualizing Complex Data Sets?

I first saw a video of Hans Rosling, who had some very unique ways of visualizing data that would otherwise be useless to a simple mind such as mine.

After I watched that, I found a piece of software called Tableau. I downloaded the trial version, and really liked how easy it made visualizing data for me. I can take the data I have, and Tableau will see how it's connected and allow you to generate visual reports of the data. I'm not saying that it'll work for everything, but it certainly does what I need it to extremely well, especially for my business intelligence initiatives.

Comment Re:Most jobs are boring (Score 1) 752

by bradinthehouse on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @02:24PM (#23921823) Attached to: New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring"

Wait eight years. Add a mortgage and a couple of kids. Get used to the independence. Suddenly a stable job that pays the bills sounds a lot better.

I don't get how being tied down makes a person more independent.

Torvalds Explains Scheduler Decision 411

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 28, 2007 @03:24PM from the it's-the-guy-not-the-code dept.

Firedog writes "There's been a lot of recent debate over why Linus Torvalds chose the new CFS process scheduler written by Ingo Molnar over the SD process scheduler written by Con Kolivas, ranging from discussing the quality of the code to favoritism and outright conspiracy theories. KernelTrap is now reporting Linus Torvalds' official stance as to why he chose the code that he did. 'People who think SD was "perfect" were simply ignoring reality,' Linus is quoted as saying. He goes on to explain that he selected the Completely Fair Scheduler because it had a maintainer who has proven himself willing and able to address problems as they are discovered. In the end, the relevance to normal Linux users is twofold: one is the question as to whether or not the Linux development model is working, and the other is the question as to whether the recently released 2.6.23 kernel will deliver an improved desktop experience."

Submission + - School district recommends parents buy MSOffice 07

Submitted by WS Nick on Saturday July 28, 2007 @02:16PM

WS Nick writes: Batavia school district (Illinois) is recommending that parents of high school students upgrade their home computers to Microsoft Office 2007. Why not use one of the free alternatives and relieve parents of some of the financial burden they face to buy all the stuff for their children the school says? I guess Microsoft's profits is more important to the school district.

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