In this blog I document an issue with SQL Server Management Studio freezing and what I did to resolve the issue. So while trouble-shooting a SharePoint issue (that's another blog) I found that the SQL Server Management Studio froze as soon as it loaded and I could...
Scope In the first article in this 3-part series The New Data Visualization - This is Not Your Father's Pie Chart we discussed the three main categories of data and the standard methods used to best portray each of them. If you haven’t read that one yet I’d like to...
In today’s technology landscape, migration to the Cloud is compelling not just for the cost and time savings over standing up your own infrastructure, but many other important reasons including on-demand spare capacity for seasonal or peak traffic loads, as well as...
I recently built a SharePoint (SP) Visual Web Part (VWP) with two calendar controls and a literal control. The calendar controls are used to filter the content of a specific list and the results are displayed in the literal control. The literal control only has the...
Part 1 Beginning to Understand Methods What is Data Visualization While there are a few different schools of thought on what Data Visualization really is, ranging anywhere from Excel spreadsheets to 3-foot-long Infographics, in general, it is the practice of turning...
Let’s take a look at “Nirvana Health System,” a hypothetical 1000 bed system in the City of Nirvana. The system has 7000 employees, 7 hospitals, more than 200 doctors on staff, with another 800 or so who independently perform services in the area. Historically they...