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2. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com BI from space: PowerPivot with NASA data PowerPivot, while being an Excel add-in, was built by the SQL team, and is one of the most powerful data integration tools in the Microsoft stack. In this session, you will learn how to combine data from web services, tables and cubes to build a powerful model, and visualise it in Excel. An introduction to Time Intelligence using DAX will lead us on to the new features in version 2, and we will move from the Date table to relationships, perspectives and KPIs. You will also see the difference between developing in the Excel addin vs Visual Studio.

3. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com – Founded Pragmatic Works South Africa Just launched second office – Started BIDN Johannesburg chapter – Author of “Sharepoint 2010 BI” Visual Intelligence Upcoming – …. Wishes the flight from Johannesburg was shorter – Should fall off MTBs less Mark Stacey

4. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Agenda 4 What data is out there? Introduction to the tools Sloane Digital Sky Survey Excel and PowerPivot practical Finding a planet

5. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Space Science – National Space Science Data Center http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ – All Space missions – Includes non US space missions The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) provides multidiscipline data and information services, including a large digital data archive from past NASA space science missions along with directories, catalogs, and access to widely distributed science data resources.

6. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Earth Observing System http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov Global Change Master directory 25 000 datasets http://gcmd.nasa.gov/ The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long- term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.Earth Observing System

7. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Earth Based Telescopes Optical Radio, Gamma Ray, UV, Infrared, Microwave, Particle Difficult to get time (think Mainframes) How to find specific data? Datasets from space based telescopes also fall into this general class of datasets.

8. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Keck in Hawaii Largest ground based optical telescope 10m mirrors Kepler NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars 0.95m mirror WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe – used to measure temperature differences in Cosmic Microwave background 3 highlights

9. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Finding Data Sloane Digital Sky Survey http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/ http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/ Index for finding objects Can issue SQL Queries Bigger queries scheduled to run as batch 500 MB limit Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) consists of a series of three interlocking imaging and spectroscopic surveys, carried out over an eight-year period with a dedicated 2.5m telescope located at Apache Point Observatory in Southern New Mexico. This seventh data release (DR7) from the SDSS represents the completion of this project.

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11. MAKING BUSINESS INTELLIGENT www.pragmaticworks.com Client Local File Processing on machine Sharepoint Shared, Version controlled worksheet in DB Processing on scalable servers Excel Services Architecture

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14. Services Speed development through training, and rapid development services from Pragmatic Works.Products BI products to convert to a Microsoft BI platform and simplify development on the platform. Foundation Helping those who do not have the means to get into information technology and to achieve their dreams. See you soon… Sales : sales@pragmaticworks.com My Email: My Twitter: Office Number: mstacey@pragmaticworks.com @MarkGStacey