Dashboards

Three Data Visualizations I liked this week:

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I have been working on creating Dashboards for one of my projects. As a part of the research, I looked at few Dashboards out their on the inter-webs. Here are three of them that I liked:

1. Social Media & Sentiment Analysis:

What I like about this Dashboard is the creative use of Data via Sentiment Analysis:

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2. Microsoft Research’s Viral Search Project:

What a creative way to visualize viral content!

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3. Social Media analytic’s Dashboard:

Nice one page social dashbaord!

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Do you see the bottom right part of the report that shows you engagement levels by post type, if you want to compute it – here’s my blog post on that: Social Media Analytics. Facebook Page Smackdown: Status updates vs Images?

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“An unexpected system error occured…” – While trying to establish a Data Connection in Performance Point 2010 Dashboard Designer

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So I got an error while trying to set up a Data Connection via Performance Point 2010 Dashboard Designer: “An unexpected system error has occurred . additional details have been logged for your administrator” – and so I did quick searches and read this & this & this & this & this and with the help of the links I solved the error. Now, there are lots of moving parts but for machine I was able to solve the error by:

1. SharePoint 2010 Central Administration

2. Manage Services on Server

3. Stopping “PerformancePoint Service”

4. And then Starting it Again.

5. If you are still facing issues then consider re-booting the server. In my case, it was a demo machine and so I quickly rebooted it.

Simple? Yeah but I spent 30 odd mins trying to figure out how to solve this error and so I thought I would document this.

 

Works? Yes? Great! No? Try:

-> Configure secure service store and unattended service account.

-> you can check out the links that I added earlier.

 

Before I got the error – I had

1. Successfully Added “PerformancePoint Service Application” via “Manage Service Applications”

2. I had made sure that the PerformancePoint Service and the Secure Store Service were Started.

3. Created a Business Intelligence Center Site and checked the Site Collection Features were properly configured.

But I got an error while trying to create a Data Connection. And I solved it! And Now can spend time creating few reports! That’s about it for this post.

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