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Jan 28 2011

Location Based BI

Business Intelligence and GIS software have both been around for many years.  More recently they have become closely integrated, with most BI offerings providing a connection to mapping layers such as MapInfo or Google Maps.  The merger of these two tools provides a powerful visualization for data, connecting massive amounts of data with a visual that most everyone is already familiar with.  For example, a map of New York City overlaid with census data quickly shows us where to find Gotham’s ethnic neighborhoods.  Another interesting example using Google maps shows us where harassment is occurring in

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