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This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned.

The video posted at the end of this article is the capstone to the FAA Wildlife Strike Data series.  To review the entire series and experiment with building your own copies of these reports, links to all articles and videos in the series are as follows:

1. BI Design for FAA Aircraft Wildlife Strike Data (click here to read)
2. FAA Aircraft Wildlife Strike Data Model and Dashboard in PowerPivot (click here to read)
3. Video: FAA Wildlife Strike Data BI Dashboards with PowerPivot (click here to read)
4. Video: Power View BI Motion Charts in SQL 2012 with FAA Aircraft Wildlife Strike Data (this article)

The video below demonstrates the use of the FAA Wildlife Strike Data for the creation of a motion scatter chart in Power View.  Power View is a useful new BI tool available with SQL Server 2012.  Motion charts, like those presented by Hans Rosling over the last few years at TED talks, are a powerful new tool for presenting data in a manner that can captivate an audience:

Original article continues here.