My New Love: Tableau as a BI Solution

Let me introduce you to the latest love of my life, Tableau (Link). With my creativity at an all time high, it has met its perfect match in Tableau. This BI and Analytic tool claims to make data beautiful. So true! and its so easy. You could build visualizations, complex trend-charts, box-whisker plots, dual axis graphs, filled Geo-maps. This calls for the attention of the BI community. I agree with Gartner BI products 2014 evaluation. They have placed Tableau as a leader ahead of Cognos, Microstrategy for a good reason (click Link for more on the BI Gartner magic-quadrant).

Without much ado let me share a viz i created with Tableau for fun on dummy retail data.

If you are interested in hiring me to help you out with building awesome BI solutions, please reach out to my email: ojoswi@gmail.com or visit my LinkedIn profile and leave me a message (LinkedIn)

"The Last Leaf"

This decorative plastic plant in the front yard of my neighbor reminded me of O'Henry's "The Last Leaf". For those of you who do not know who O'Henry is and whats this all about, here is the context.
O Henry was a famous American writer of the late 1880's (Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry) known for his short stories, "The Last Leaf" being one of them. 
The story revolves around a young lady who was unwell and had her mind set on this wrong notion that as the last leaf of the ivy vine growing on the fence of her house (that she could see from the window, laying on her bed) would fall in autumn, her life would come to an end. An old painter used to rent the basement of the same house. He came to know of this silly association of the lady's well-being to the 'last leaf'. On a cold, rainy night went out there and drew an ivy leaf (the last leaf) on the fence as if it were part of the ivy vine. Finding the leaf never fell, this lady got inspired, got better with time and one day ventured out into her yard for a walk, only to find that the ivy leaf was a fake drawing. Soon she realized, went down to ask about the old painter. The chambermaid of the house informed that the old painter was found frozen to death the next morning of the night he was out painting his 'masterpiece'.
This decorative plant, with all fallen maple leaves around, standing proudly green out there in the cold, reminds me of this short story!

Selling Photos

Now that I realize Photography is an expensive hobby, i am open to make extra cash by selling the photos I have clicked. Need to put this towards my next full-frame camera.

If you like the photos and are interested in buying High Quality copies.

Please let me know (ojoswi@gmail.com) and I can email them to you.

            Price for Exclusive rights: 100$ per photo.

            Price for High-Quality copies: 15$ per photo

URL: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/105086239461723821899/albums/6077566371137607153