TechEd Australia 2014 being revamped

Well I had secretly been wondering how much longer TechEd Australia would be held on the Gold Coast, mostly as living in Brisbane this made it very accessible for me and I have enjoyed many years of attending the event as both an attendee and most recently as event staff. Now it is set for a revamp and will be more localized to other capital cities. Of cause there is going to always be positives and negatives to any change, but overall I see this as a positive evolution for the event in this fast changing world of IT.

For the full official details check out http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/teched/teched-2014/default.aspx

For those in Brisbane who are sad, don't worry there will be plenty of user groups and community events over the year to keep us fed with technology and provide great networking opportunities. One in particular I am looking forward to again this year is Infrastructure Saturday which I am sure will be bigger and better again this year.

Analytics for Twitter 2013 in the lead up to MS TechEd Australia

TechEd Australia is just around the corner and it's always an interesting time to dive into the BI features of Excel, especially with the out of the box Analytics for Twitter 2013. Definitely going to be watching this over the course of next week and using this to get some interesting insights into my own session (but more on that later).

If you haven't already seen the analytic tool here is a current view of the analysis of the query "auteched".

 

You can get some interesting info already like the fact that most activity is happening around lunch time, which is probably expected but will definitely be interesting to trend this over the course of next week.

My favorite is the geospatial data as it makes for some very interesting and easy to digest visualization.

And an interesting race at the moment is between the iOS and Windows devices (I know which one I hope wins) but still they are both outdone by the Web (and whatever other is).

Ahhhh BI, we can only make guesses without you