Here at RJMetrics, we’re dedicated to getting our new users up-and-running as quickly as possible. Therefore, we are proud to announce that all of our users now have access to a new “Getting Started” page. New users will see this page automatically the first time they log in, and existing users can access the page by mousing over “Help” in the top-right menu [...]
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RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Composite Charts Part 2 (Scalar Consolidation)
July 15, 2009 – 7:49 am
Welcome to part two of our introduction to the RJMetrics “composite chart,” an exciting new tool that allows you to create live, interactive visualizations by combining datasets in unprecedented ways. In our last post, we performed transformative operations on related series with composite charts, and explained how this application can help you better understand your [...]
RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Composite Charts
July 13, 2009 – 7:36 am
Your business moves quickly, and we’re proud to build features that make sure your database analytics can keep up. Today, we’re happy to present the RJMetrics “Composite Chart Wizard,” an exciting new feature that allows you to create brilliant charts, graphs, and visualizations by combining data sets in countless new ways. We’ll explore composite charts in a [...]
DoS Attacks Trend Toward Politics
June 22, 2009 – 8:00 am
The internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. Those tubes can be filled, and if they are overfilled, bad things happen. This is the basic idea behind denial-of-service attacks: to render a computer resource unavailable to its intended users, often by simply [...]
With a Yo-Ho-Ho and a Tricky Lah-Tee Doo
June 15, 2009 – 7:30 am
The past few weeks have seen marked developments in piracy and file sharing. The Swedish Pirate Party, a political organization that strives to legalize file sharing and bolster internet privacy, scored a considerable victory on Sunday, securing at least one (but probably two) of Sweden’s eighteen European Parliament seats. In somewhat related news, my family [...]
Paradigm Shifts in Rap, Database Analytics
June 4, 2009 – 9:08 am
Hello internet! My name is Mario Ponticello, and I am a senior concentrating in Finance and Management at the Wharton School. Writing this blog post, I’m reminded of the incisive words of rap mogul Flavor Flav, who observed, “…the rap scene right now has taken its own course and its own direction because you have [...]
