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Category: Odds and Ends

Articles that don’t fit neatly into a category. May not necessarily be as career-focused as some of my other material.

You can’t expect to make something beautiful the first time
Data Visualization, What I'm Watching

You can’t expect to make something beautiful the first time

Dallas MarksDecember 12, 2012February 24, 2026

“Your first projects are gonna suck, and that’s okay”

I Can Live Without Apple’s Latest Glass Rectangle
Odds and Ends

I Can Live Without Apple’s Latest Glass Rectangle

Dallas MarksOctober 29, 2012April 21, 2017

Sure you can buy the latest Apple gadget. But you don’t have to.

Number Five is Alive!
Mobile BI, Odds and Ends

Number Five is Alive!

Dallas MarksSeptember 4, 2012February 18, 2026

The mysterious number 5 on Apple’s event invitation.

Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Turns 35
Odds and Ends

Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Turns 35

Dallas MarksAugust 18, 2012October 16, 2026

Do you remember your first computer?

Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn’t simple
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Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn’t simple

Dallas MarksMay 25, 2012October 16, 2026

Jonathan Ive interview with The Telegraph.

Odds and Ends

Hell Freezes Over – Desktop Intelligence returns to SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite

Dallas MarksApril 1, 2012October 16, 2026

Desktop Intelligence is returning to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform.

Googlighting
Odds and Ends

Googlighting

Dallas MarksFebruary 24, 2012October 1, 2026

Microsoft hates Google, therefore it posts a funny commercial on Google YouTube. Hmmm…

The iPad Family
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The iPad Family

Dallas MarksFebruary 20, 2012September 15, 2026

As my family contemplates multiple iOS devices, is Apple doing the same?

Free Speech
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Free Speech

Dallas MarksJanuary 31, 2012July 20, 2017

What does this have to do with BI? Absolutely nothing. But bear with me.

The Grid
Business Intelligence, What I'm Watching

The Grid

Dallas MarksAugust 5, 2011July 21, 2017

The biodigital jazz of “human form into digital space” is, obviously, science fiction. However, we willingly allow smartphones and VPN’s to pull us into The Grid all of the time.

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About Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

As a cloud and analytics practitioner, author, instructional designer, and trainer, I help organizations harness the power of analytics in the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid. I prefer piano keyboards over computer keyboards when not blogging or tweeting about analytics.

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