Visualise Your Drive Space Usage

Thursday, 4 March 2010 | Jason Slater

Disk space is a funny thing, no matter how big hard drives get we always managed to fill them up!

If you are not quite sure where all your hard drive space has disappeared to there is a useful disk usage visualisation tool by the name of OverDisk, which was in beta at version 0.11a (and is no longer under development), which lets you view your hard disk in a radial manner with drill down. It’s a shame the application is no longer under development as it offers a refreshingly different way of visualising your disk usage – and I am a big fan of data visualisation tools.

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Visualise Your Data With A Useful Framework

Friday, 18 December 2009 | Jason Slater

A topic I love watching out for is data visualisation and the tools available, including business intelligence, dashboards, key performance indicators, and other mechanisms to make sense of data using the well known phrase “an image is worth a thousand … Read More

Visualise your data assets with Constellation Roamer

Friday, 28 August 2009 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

Searching through pages of textual information trying to find connections and relationships between information items is time consuming and not very intuitive. Being able to visualise information and explore links can speed up the process and often lead to interesting … Read More

Configuring MRTG for Traffic Visualisation

Tuesday, 4 August 2009 | Jason Slater

Tobi Oetiker’s MRTG, or Multi Router Traffic Grapher to give it it’s full name, is a handy visualisation utility to understand what is going on with your router (or other devices). As long as you can get an SNMP output … Read More

Desktop Dashboards for Business Intelligence

Thursday, 25 June 2009 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

There are a number of options for desktop visualisation software encompassing many areas of business metrics (BM), key performance indicators (KPI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Many of these systems require a formatted data feed from … Read More