A Plethora of Options -- The New World of Data Visualization

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A Plethora of Options – The New World of Data Visualization

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Topics

This month: DATA DISCOVERY & VISUALIZATION

December: INNOVATORS

2014 Editorial Calendar at www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room


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Data Discovery & Visualization

!   Today’s business challenges call for dynamic, interactive and multi-dimensional visualizations

!   Different types of analysis require different types of visualization tools and techniques

!   Not all people consume and digest data in the same way; hence, data visualization and discovery products need to cater for diversity


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Analyst: John O’Brien

John O’Brien is Founder and CEO of

Radiant Advisors


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Actuate

!   Actuate is a software company whose suite of products include solutions for business intelligence, information applications, operational and analytic dashboards, data mining and predictive analytics

!   Actuate is the founder of the Eclipse BIRT open source project, a development environment for data visualizations

!   Visualizations developed and deployed using BIRT can be shared and embedded


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Guest: Jason Goodyear

Jason Goodyear has over 15 years of experience in data delivery applications. He has been with Actuate for over 5 years in a technical sales position. Prior to joining Actuate, Jason was involved in the delivery of data applications in a variety of roles including: senior programmer, technical project lead, application architect, project manager and business analyst.

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10 Tips for Jaw-‐Dropping Visualiza6ons

Jason Goodyear Solu/ons Engineer

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Agenda

• Visualiza.ons must augment the message, not overshadow it 1.  Highlight one or mul/ple aAributes 2.  Summarize very high volume of data

• Visualiza.ons for performance monitoring 1.  Set up goals and targets 2.  Go beyond gauges and traffic lights

• Visualiza.ons can enable ac.onable intelligence 1.  Discover hidden nuggets of informa/on 2.  Think forward

• Embedding visualiza.ons everywhere


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Embedding Visualiza.ons


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Ques.ons & Answers

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Jason Goodyear– [email protected] www.actuate.com

Thanks for your aDen6on


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Perceptions & Questions

Analyst: John O’Brien

© Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000

WHO ARE YOU IN DATA VISUALIZATION?

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Inside Analysis – Actuate Data Visualization November 05, 2013

John O’Brien | Principal Analyst and CEO, Radiant Advisors

@obrienjw @radiantadvisors

[email protected]


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•  Common wisdom is wrong

…except when it’s right

•  When price drops, jump

•  If prices high, hold off

•  The day you fly matters

•  So does the day you buy

•  Markups vary by destination

•  Stay an extra day Flight Patterns" shows 141,000 aircraft paths over a 24-hour period. Image: Aaron KoblinRead

Who are you in Data Visualization? FARECAST STORY

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_airfares##ixzz11h85mCO2


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Farecast, part of Microsoft’s Bing search engine

Advises to buy or wait for airfare prices to lower

Examines 225 billion flight and price records

Who are you in Data Visualization? VISUALIZATION IS PART OF THE PRODUCT


Visual Types:

1.  Technician

2.  Analyzer

3.  Artist

4.  Outsider

5.  The Light Bulb

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Remember when… must be 1980s !

Who are you in Data Visualization? 5 TYPES OF VISUALIZATION PEOPLE


Personality of a Technician:

•  All about implementation

•  Strong programming background

•  Has worked with large databases

•  Aesthetics not as important as working

•  Visualization comes after everything

works

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Who are you in Data Visualization? 1 – THE TECHNICIAN


Personality of an Analyzer: •  Data is the priority

•  Aesthetics not the greatest concern

•  Wants to know relationships between variables

•  Finds positive and negative trends

•  Selects or corrects type of graph or chart used

•  Weapons of choice:

•  R programming, Excel, SAS

•  Programming experience but doesn’t code

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Sound like anyone you know…

Who are you in Data Visualization? 2 – THE ANALYZER


Personality of the Artist: •  Obsessed with the final product

•  Designers who think hard about color

and visual indicators

(obsesses over moving box up 2 pixels)

•  Not programmers but maybe uses

“Processing” language

•  Weapon of choice:

Adobe CS, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Also the person mostly likely to tell you something is ugly!

Who are you in Data Visualization? 3 – THE ARTIST


Personality of the Outsider: •  Field experts with complex data sets

•  Wants to visualize their data but not

sure how

•  Provides plenty of context and

sense of the data

•  Usually explaining things to the

Technicians, Analyzers and Artists

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Who are you in Data Visualization? 4 - OUTSIDER


Personality of the Light Bulb: •  The ideas people

•  Some programming, design and

analytical experience but not

necessarily experts in all 3

•  Handle bigger data visualization

projects

•  Can lead projects and delegate work

•  It’s all about the big picture

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The brightest are Zen Masters of data visualization

Who are you in Data Visualization? 5 – THE LIGHT BULB


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Inspired by: 5 Types of Data Visualization People – What Type Are You? Blog on FlowingData.com - June 6th, 2008


Questions

•  How does Actuate help developers and analysts choose the right

visualization technique?

•  Can multiple charts on the same page be linked such that updating one

refreshes the other related views? (ex: Briefing Book)

•  Can a screen with multiple visualizations be connected to multiple

underlying databases simultaneously?

•  What collaboration features are there? Are there methods for capturing

end user comments, ratings or “like”?

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