A Plethora of Options -- The New World of Data Visualization
- 1. Grab some coffee and enjoy the pre-show banter before the top of the hour!
- 2. A Plethora of Options – The New World of Data Visualization The Briefing Room
- 3. Welcome Host: Eric Kavanagh eric.kavanagh@bloorgroup.com Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 4. Mission ! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software, good and bad ! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s innovative technologies ! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy analysts ! Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get answers! Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 5. Topics This month: DATA DISCOVERY & VISUALIZATION December: INNOVATORS 2014 Editorial Calendar at www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 6. 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 Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 7. Analyst: John O’Brien John O’Brien is Founder and CEO of Radiant Advisors Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 8. 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 Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 9. 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. Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 10. 10 Tips for Jaw-‐Dropping Visualiza6ons Jason Goodyear Solu/ons Engineer 10 Actuate Corporation © 2012
- 11. 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 11 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 12. 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 12 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 13. Geospa.al 13 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 14. Geospa.al 14 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 15. Interac.on 15 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 16. Icon 16 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 17. Rich 17 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 18. Repe..on 18 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 19. Drill 19 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 20. 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 20 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 21. Performance 21 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 22. Briefing Book 22 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 23. 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 23 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 24. Venn Diagram 24 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 25. Profile 25 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 26. 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 26 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 27. Embedding Visualiza.ons 27 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 28. Embedding Visualiza.ons 28 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 29. Embedded Visualiza.on 29 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 30. Ques.ons & Answers 30 Actuate Corpora/on © 2012
- 31. Jason Goodyear– jgoodyear@actuate.com www.actuate.com Thanks for your aDen6on 31 Actuate Corporation © 2012
- 32. Perceptions & Questions Analyst: John O’Brien Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 33. 33 WHO ARE YOU IN DATA VISUALIZATION? Inside Analysis – Actuate Data Visualization November 05, 2013 John O’Brien | Principal Analyst and CEO, Radiant Advisors @obrienjw @radiantadvisors john.obrien@radiantadvisors.com © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 34. 34 Who are you in Data Visualization? FARECAST STORY • 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 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_airfares##ixzz11h85mCO2 © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 35. 35 Who are you in Data Visualization? VISUALIZATION IS PART OF THE PRODUCT 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 © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 36. 36 Who are you in Data Visualization? 5 TYPES OF VISUALIZATION PEOPLE Visual Types: 1. Technician 2. Analyzer 3. Artist 4. Outsider 5. The Light Bulb Remember when… must be 1980s ! © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 37. 37 Who are you in Data Visualization? 1 – THE TECHNICIAN 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 © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 38. 38 Who are you in Data Visualization? 2 – THE ANALYZER 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 © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000 Sound like anyone you know…
- 39. 39 Who are you in Data Visualization? 3 – THE ARTIST 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 Also the person mostly likely to tell you something is ugly! • Weapon of choice: Adobe CS, Illustrator, Photoshop © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 40. 40 Who are you in Data Visualization? 4 - OUTSIDER 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 © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 41. 41 Who are you in Data Visualization? 5 – THE LIGHT BULB 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 © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000 The brightest are Zen Masters of data visualization
- 42. 42 For more information www.RadiantAdvisors.com Inspired by: 5 Types of Data Visualization People – What Type Are You? Blog on FlowingData.com - June 6th, 2008 Twitter: @RadiantAdvisors #ModernBI #RediscoveringBI RSS: feed://radiantadvisors.com/feed/ Email us at: info@RadiantAdvisors.com Linked IN: www.linkedin.com/company/radiant-advisors Subscribe: Rediscovering BI quarterly e-magazine www.radiantadvisors.com/rediscoveringbi THANK YOU! © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
- 43. 43 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”? © Copyright 2013 Radiant Advisors. All Rights Reserved v1.10.000
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- 45. Upcoming Topics November: DATA DISCOVERY & VISUALIZATION December: INNOVATORS 2014 Editorial Calendar at www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room www.insideanalysis.com Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room
- 46. Thank You for Your Attention Twitter Tag: #briefr The Briefing Room