Visual Analytics on Public Sector Open Access DataVisual Analytics on Public Sector Open Access Data Dr. Andreas S. Maniatis Commercial Manager / Head of BI CyberStream LTD Big Data

Visual Analytics on Public Sector Open Access Data

Dr. Andreas S. Maniatis

Commercial Manager / Head of BI

CyberStream LTD

Big Data and Business Analytics: Theory and Practice

Wednesday, October 24th 2012

AUEB – Athens, Greece

CyberStream LTD The human face of technology …

Business process automation

Unified communications

Enterprise networking

Portals

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Systems Integrator Established in 2000 Strong software engineering skills Focus on development of custom & reusable solutions Partner relationship with established technology companies Involvement in ΒΙ/BS since 1997

Issues to be discussed

• What Business Analytics are …

• Key usability differentiators for Business Analytics

• Data Visualization concepts

• Visual Analytics as a key differentiator for Business Analytics

What Business Analytics are …

• «Business Analytics» refers to the Exploration of Business Data to improve Decision Making

• Business Analytics answer sophisticated questions, such as «Why ?» and «What next ?»

• No real «Business Intelligence» without «Business Analytics»

• Basis for «Predictive Analytics»

You don’t get Analytics with BI

Visual Business Analytics Traditional BI

Solves problems Delivers reports

Unrestricted data exploration Pre-determined questions

Imports from spreadsheets for answers Export to spreadsheets for “analysis”

User-driven IT constrained

Data on demand Pre-determined dimensions and measures

Fully integrated, extensive statistics Limited KPI’s

Events and process-driven Database dependence

“Solutions” & “Analytic Applications” “Reports” & “Dashboards”

Analytics is Understanding. BI is Presentation.

Trends in Business Intelligence • Trends in BI are towards analytics

and visualization – “By 2012, 70 percent of Global 1000

companies will turn to in-memory analytics as the dominant performance layer, and they will move away from building aggregates and summaries and cubes.” – Kurt Schegel, Gartner

• Self-service BI, Mobile BI, SaaS, real-time analytics dominate the 2011 agenda – James Kobielus, Forrester Research

• Trends driven by the fact that current BI systems do not meet the operational needs of business users in a rapidly changing environment.

The importance of senses

• Seeing 83 percent

• Hearing 11 percent

• Touching 3 ½ percent

• Smelling 1 ½ percent

• Tasting 1 percent

• 6th Sense … ?

Source: Oklahoma State University http://www.oces.okstate.edu/washita/uploaded_files/4h_Learning_Styles.doc

The importance of context

Visual Analytics: A Definition

“... the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces …”

Relative Terms:

• Visual Analysis

• Visual Data Analysis

• Visual Data Mining

Illuminating the Path: Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics

James J. Thomas, Kristin A. Cook

IEEE Press, 2005

The Scope of Visual Analytics

Source: http://www.visual-analytics.eu/faq/

Research Fundamentals for Visual Analytics

Source: http://www.visual-analytics.eu/faq/

The Visual Analytics Process

Source: http://www.visual-analytics.eu/faq/

The Visual Analytics Mantra

Visual Analytics: Scope and Challenges

Daniel A. Keim, Florian Mansmann, Jorn Schneidewind, Jim Thomas, and Hartmut Ziegler

Visual Data Mining, pages 76 – 90, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg © 2008

Analyze

Show the Important

Zoom, Filter, Analyze Further …

Details on Demand

Trends in Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis

Interactive dynamics for visual analysis

Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman

Communications of the ACM , April 2012, Volume 55 Issue 4

Current Challenges in Extreme-Scale Visual Analytics

The Top 10 Challenges in Extreme-Scale Visual Analytics

Wong, Pak Chung

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, July-Aug. 2012, Volume: 32 , Issue: 4

1. In-situ Analysis (In-memory Analytics)

2. Interaction and User Interfaces

3. Large-Data Visualization

4. Databases and Storage

5. Algorithms

6. Data Movement, Data Transport, and Network Infrastructure

7. Uncertainty Quantification

8. Parallelism

9. Domain and Development Libraries, Frameworks, and Tools

10. Social, Community, and Government Engagements

Key usability differentiators for Visual Analytics

• Factors demanding for usability differentiators:

– Flood of data

• Social Networks, Media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.)

• Search engines (Google etc)

• Variety of new data types / streams

– Faster cycle times

– New devices (Smartphones, Tablets etc.)

– The introduction of Analytics by itself

– Involve more power users in exploratory data analysis

The Two-seconds Advantage First to insight; first to action.

“A little bit of the right information, just a little bit beforehand – whether it is a couple of seconds, minutes or hours – is more valuable than all of the information in the world six months later… this is the two-second advantage.”

— Vivek Ranadivé,

Founder, CEO, Chairman TIBCO Software

The Power of Visual Analytics

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Combine data from disparate sources to

gain a comprehensive view of the business & make better decisions faster

Freely explore data without the need for IT tasks such as creating complex queries, modeling dimensions, or defining navigational paths.

Dimension-free Data Exploration Data Mashup

Predictive Analytics Spotfire blends powerful models &

predictive analytics into analytic

dashboards & guided apps

“What-If”

controls for

users

Predictive

Analytics “under

the hood”

Predicted

Outcomes

Event-Driven

Contextual Collaboration

SPONTANEOUS AND FREEFORM TEAM

DISCOVERY - SHARED “DECISION SPACES”

DECISIONS WITHIN DEFINED WORKFLOWS

& PROCESSES - ANALYTICS IN PROCESS

THE INDSTRY’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLABORATIVE ANALYTICS

SOLUTION LEADS TO BETTER DECISIONS AND BUY-IN

Enterprise-class

Easy for Everyone, Adaptable for anything: Front Line &

Information Workers, Business Analysts, IT, Developers,

Managers, Executives, & Statisticians

A single, highly-scalable analytics platform empowers a broad spectrum of

business & technical users enterprise-wide.

Mobile

o Ease of use features for Executives and Business Managers

o Apple Store download

o Enable Social features

o Expand to Android based Tablets – Samsung Galaxy Tablet

Turning a legacy reporting example …

… into an exemplary Visual Analytics paradigm

New Skills for the Data Analyst

• Data Scientist, Analyst or Statistician?

– Technical Skills

– Teamwork Skills

– Communication Skills

– Business Skills (with a little bit of empathy)

– Tool Mastery

• StoryTeller?

Institute for Advances Analytics

http://http://analytics.ncsu.edu/

A Visual Narration

Thank you!

Dr. Andreas S. Maniatis

Commercial Manager / Head of BI

[email protected]

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasmaniatis

www.cyberstream.eu