data visualization

Microsoft is ramping up its AI game with jaw-dropping updates to its 365 Copilot, showcasing how the tech behemoth plans to reshape workplace productivity. Announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2024 event, these groundbreaking updates include Copilot Actions, Windows 365 Link, and cutting-edge...

Microsoft just lobbed a glittering upgrade over the Copilot fence, and enterprise IT will never be quite the same (whether anyone actually asked for quite this much “AI” or not—remains to be seen). With the so-called Wave 2 Spring release, Microsoft 365 Copilot is going from clever sidekick to...

In today’s digital bazaar, where every business craves the secret sauce for actionable insights, there’s a new darling in the data science town: Azure Databricks. What does this mean for your team? In the simplest terms, it’s a supercharged workbench where analytics, enterprise-scale AI, and...

If you thought Microsoft Office was just about the endless grind of spreadsheets and the ping pong of Teams messages, think again—a new era is creeping up, and it has a name: ArcGIS for Microsoft. What follows is part mythbuster, part guidebook, and just a sprinkle of techy existentialism for...

Mastering Microsoft Copilot: The Definitive 2025 Beginner’s Handbook Navigating the ever-complex digital workspace has never been more challenging. Meetings threaten to overtake calendars, email inboxes have a gravity all their own, and the ongoing battle with the intricacies of spreadsheets...

The March 2025 update for ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 is stirring up a new era of spatial data analysis and visualization across familiar Microsoft applications. Designed to empower both Excel and SharePoint users, this update transforms spatial workflows with advanced data format support...

Microsoft’s latest innovation in the Power Platform is here to transform how you interact with your data. The new data exploration agent leverages natural language processing and AI-driven insights to simplify record searches in model-driven apps. In this article, we dive deep into what this...

Imagine diving into a cluttered dataset—employee productivity, regional sales, or market trends—and needing clean, interactive visualizations to make strategic decisions. With a few prompts, Copilot can generate dynamic Plotly visuals, saving time and avoiding the common pitfalls of manually...

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Black Marble, a member of Microsoft’s HoloLens Mixed Reality Partner Program (MRPP), is one of many agencies creating ground-breaking applications for HoloLens. It has seen the potential benefits that mixed reality brings to the enterprise, by blending virtual and physical worlds, enabling...

Link Removed Dr. Olivier Elemento (left) alongside with his Ph.D students Neil Madhukar and Katie Gayvert, analyze medical network data (photo courtesy of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine) Welcome! This is Making mixed reality, a series celebrating the passionate community...

This week’s app is all about the Internet of Things. Best For You is a sample fitness UWP app focused on collecting data from a fictional IoT enabled yoga wear and presenting it to the user in a meaningful and helpful way on all of their devices to track health and progress of exercise. In this...

About a week or so ago Nico and Sachin announced a really cool visualization contest where people could win actual money! They were eager for everyone to be successful so they wanted to have an end-to-end demonstration on how one would go about building a visualization from scratch. In this...

Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 allows you to create stunning data visualizations from Excel, SQL Server, SSAS, SQL Azure, SharePoint and other cloud & enterprise data sources. Link Removed

I did find something cool! A couple weeks ago I said I wouldn't post anything more about the Microsoft Band (unless I found something really cool). Well today's project is officially cool! How could you not think Paul DeCarlo's recent project RPi + WinPhone + MS Band + Azure + Excel +...

At Tech Ed 2011, David Pugmire and I had the pleasure of speaking with Ken Collins from Cogent. He demonstrated the Cogent DataHub WebView product—a product built using Silverlight and backed by cloud services. The product includes real-time information display from various sensors and...

This video covers the basics of skeletal tracking using the Kinect sensor. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Skeleton Tracking API [Link Removed] Understanding Skeleton Quality and Joint data [Link Removed] Setup skeleton tracking [Link...

Link Removed is an interactive environment for data analysis and scientific computing that lets you seamlessly connect scripts (in IronPython) with compiled code (in .NET) to enable fast and flexible prototyping. The environment includes powerful and efficient libraries for linear algebra as...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: [watch] MSTechEd: Link Removed and Brian Keller/Larry Larsen "working" by showing off Kinect [watch] SQL Server "Denali" - Next version of SQL Server, includes Parallel Data Warehouse, "Crescent" for data...

Do you like to play with your data? Thought so. This Excel-centric Office Show episode plunges into the world of data visualization, and shows you how to get better-looking, more meaningful charts without banging your head against the wall. And we've got some amazing things to show you that some...