First big news from the PASS BA Conference: the public preview for GeoFlow is now available. You can download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38395
Here are the official announcements with all the details:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2013/04/11/day-2-pass-business-analytics-conference-new-3d-mapping-analytics-tool-for-excel.aspx
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2013/04/11/dallas-utilities-electricity-seasonal-use-simulation-with-geoflow-preview-and-powerview.aspx
GeoFlow is an addin for Excel 2013 that allows you to visualise your data on a 3D map, to zoom in and explore that data, and record ‘tours’ of this data. It’s a lot of fun! As a taster, here’s a screenshot of a visualisation showing English secondary schools exam results data (average A-Level point score per pupil) broken down by school gender of entry:
UPDATE: one other thing I have to mention is that when this was announced in the keynote at the PASS BA Conference this morning, Amir Netz did an absolutely astounding demo showing GeoFlow’s touch-based capabilities running on a massive Perceptive Pixel screen (I think it was this one: http://www.perceptivepixel.com/products/82-lcd-multi-touch-display). It was possibly the most impressive demo I’ve seen of any Microsoft BI product. Anyway, I got to play on it myself later and it was as cool as it looked. If you’ve got $80000 burning a hole in your pocket then you could do worse than invest in one of these babies.
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Chris – The price has dropped significantly! I think they run around $26k now. Order a couple of them for home:-)
Only $26K? I’ll get a couple for my kids and one to put in my bathroom!
Was the keynote demo recorded by any chance?
Any idea if this will be made available for multidimensional SSAS cubes?
It should hopefully work in the future when a new version of Multidimensional (DAXMD) supports DAX queries