to read or to write? - that is the question

I was silent for a while for a reason: I owe myself to read a big pile of books, articles and blog posts by many authors - I have to read it before I can write something myself. List is huge and it goes many weeks back! I will sample a sublist  here with some relatively fresh reading materials in no particular order:

1. Excellent "Clearly and Simply" blog by Robert Mundigl, here are just 2 samples:

• http://www.clearlyandsimply.com/clearly_and_simply/2012/02/6-famous-paintings-in-tableau.html


• http://www.clearlyandsimply.com/clearly_and_simply/2012/03/create-your-own-filled-maps-in-tableau.html

2. Interesting site dedicated to  The Traveling Salesman Problem:

• http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/index.html

3. Excellent QV Design blog by Matthew Crowther, here are a few examples:

• http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/upcoming-new-qlikview-chart-types-inspired-by-tableau/


• http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/activity-ribbon-chart/


• http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/new-qlikview-indexed-explosion-quadrant-chart/


• http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/brilliant-qlikview-parallel-co-ordinates-chart/


• http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/associative-radial-chart/


• http://qvdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/beautiful-design-chart-innovations-from-qliktech-and-the-elephant-in-the-dashboard/

4. Good article by James Cheshire here:

• http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2012/03/fast-thinking-slow-thinking-visualisation/

5. Interesting blog by Josh Tapley: http://data-ink.com/

6. A must read blog of Stephen Wolfram, just take a look on his 2 last posts:

• http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/02/launching-a-democratization-of-data-science/


• http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/

7. Nice post by my friend John Callan: http://community.qlikview.com/blogs/theqlikviewblog/2012/03/09/why-discovery-really-matters

8. I am trying to follow David Raab as much as I can:

• http://customerexperiencematrix.blogspot.com/2012/02/sas-unveils-high-performance-analytics.html


• http://customerexperiencematrix.blogspot.com/2012/03/bi-vendor-qliktech-reveals-qlikview.html

9. As always, interesting articles from Timo Elliott:

• http://timoelliott.com/blog/2011/03/business-analytics-vs-business-intelligence.html


• http://timoelliott.com/blog/2012/02/what-i-found-interesting-about-gartner-bi-summit-2012-london.html

10. Huge set of articles from variety of Sources about newly released or about to be released xVelocity, PowerPivot2, SQL Server 2012, SSDT (SQl Server Data Tools), VS11 etc.

11. Here is a sample of article with which I disagree (I think OBIEE is TWO generations behind of Qlikview, Tableau and Spotfire), but still need to read it:

http://www.projectedconsulting.com/index.php/component/wordpress/2012/03/qlikview-versus-bi-applications-and-obiee

this list is go on and on and on, so answer on my own question is: to read!

Below is a prove (unrelated to Data Visualization, but cannot resist to publishing it - I did the spreadsheet below by myself) - rather for myself, that reading can help to avoid mistakes (sounds funny, I know). For example if you will listen last week's iPropaganda from iChurch, you will think that new iPad 2012 is the best tablet on market. But if you read carefully specification of new iPad 2012 and compare it (after careful reading) with specifications of new Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, you will have a different choice:

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