Be Nicer to Scatter Charts

Be Nicer to Scatter Charts

For some reason, people really dislike scatter charts. They understand them well enough, but they do not LIKE them. These charts are also referred to as “scatter diagrams” or “scatter plots”, and that says a lot about their lack of popularity – nobody cares enough to know their name. I get it – scatter charts might appear too academic or mathematical at times. Presenters might […]

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“Is anyone using this?” – Usage Tracking is Timeless

“Is anyone using this?” – Usage Tracking is Timeless

Even before mainframe computing became an enterprise standard, system managers had to monitor resource usage to control costs, govern processing loads and make decisions about system capacity. Granted, this topic today seems so 1960’s… only to be discussed in the smoking lounge at NASA, but these concerns still exist in both mainframes and cloud computing environments. Today the concerns have shifted somewhat from processing costs […]

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