Archive - Xcelsius

Reflections on usability testing at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference

November 04 1 Comment Category: User Experience, Xcelsius

This post has been moved to my new blog, Uncharted. Please continue the discussion there. It’s been a couple of weeks since our round of usability tests at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference (rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it?) and I wanted to share a couple of thoughts about the experience. This was the [...]

Twitter + OpenAmplify + Xcelsius = Awesome

July 28 6 Comments Category: Projects, Words, Xcelsius

This post has been moved to my new blog, Uncharted. Please continue the discussion there. I recently learned about OpenAmplify, a web service that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract meaning from text. I’m very familiar with NLP because I’ve worked on the Text Analysis team at SAP (previously with Inxight Software), so I [...]

Connecting Xcelsius to Google Spreadsheets

April 24 9 Comments Category: Xcelsius

This post has been moved to my new blog, Uncharted. Please continue the discussion there. I recently was looking for a way to connect my Xcelsius model to a Google Spreadsheet and thought I would share the process and some of my discoveries. Installing the add-on The first thing you will need to do is [...]