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		<title>Getting Started with Statistics &#8211; a key part of Business Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Gulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key part of our work in Business Intelligence is the analysis of data and the branch of mathematics that we employ for this is statistics. We analyse data to understand our business better and when analysing the data our main objective is to pick out the reality from the background noise. For example when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAP Data Services: 10 Reasons for never using Global Variables (and one where you can)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Gulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In software programming it is widely held that using global variables or other constructs to maintain global state is a poor programming practice[1] and many of those reasons can also be applied to development of jobs in SAP Data Services. The following is my list of 10 reasons for why you should never use global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Moving Averages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Gulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction A moving average is a simple technique for smoothing random data. Most often we find moving averages to analyse movement of stock prices but we also see them in other areas of business and data analysis. This is the first part of a series of two articles. This article discusses what are moving averages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating Moving Averages in Web Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Gulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The previous article looked at what moving averages are and how to calculate them. This article now looks at how to implement these in Web Intelligence. The formula used here are compatible with the XIr3 version of SAP BOE however some formula may work in previous versions if available. We&#8217;ll begin by looking at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Histograms in Web Intelligence with Adjustable Bucket Sizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Gulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This article looks at how to create a histogram in Web Intelligence and makes use of input controls to allow the user to automatically adjust the histogram&#8217;s bucket size. Histograms is a charting technique used to analyse the distribution of a set of data for example a business analyst may use a histogram to [...]]]></description>
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