Analysing your data with power view
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The document discusses the importance of data visualization tools like Power View and Power Map in interpreting and analyzing data effectively. It highlights the advantages of visual aids, such as increased reading willingness with colored visuals, while cautioning against the use of 3D visuals that can distort data interpretation. The content emphasizes the need for appropriate tools to address specific business questions and enhance the user experience in data analysis.
Analysing your data with power view
- 2. Analysing your Data with Power View
- 3. Data Visualisation and Power View We have the tools. All we’ve got to do is imagine what could be. We can reinvent the present; we can transform the world around us. Jason Silva
- 4. Computers have promised us a fountain of wisdom but delivered a flood of data (Frawley, 1992)
- 5. • Almost 50% of your brain is dedicated to visual processing. • David van Essen Researchers found that colour visuals increase the willingness to read by 80% About 70% of your sensory receptors are in your eyes.
- 6. Data Visualisation and Power View • 3D • Pie Charts • Colours
- 7. Data Visualisation and Power View • Power View does not contain 3D functionality – why? • People can overestimate the vertical dimension (Wansink, 2003) • 3D space makes it too difficult to compare – Values – Volumes – Areas • Distorts
- 8. Pie Charts and Power View – – – – We find it difficult to read angles We find it difficult to judge areas We can’t easily read over 5 slices very well Each part must be mutually exclusive
- 9. Pie Charts – the Verdict! • You can compare combinations of adjacent wedges • The parts should make a sensible whole • You’re just expecting the image to answer one ‘business question’ only • You do not need trendlines
- 10. Pie Charts
- 11. Pie Charts
- 12. Pie Charts
- 13. Pie Charts
- 14. Pie Charts
- 15. Trellis Charts
- 16. Trellis Charts
- 19. Different Tools for Different Jobs Power View • Highly Visual Design Experience • Power View is an interactive, ad hoc, query and visualization experience. It is for business question ‘mystery’ solving • Power Map • Power Map is a new 3D visualization add-in for Excel helping you to analyse geographical and temporal data – Mapping – Exploring – Interacting
- 20. Data where you want it
- 21. Data where you want it
- 22. Data where you want it
- 23. Data where you want it
- 24. Motion Charts • • • • • This makes even more of the limited space We can pack more information in Data / Ink Ratio Motion is a pre-attentive attribute Dependent on other items e.g. chartjunk
- 25. THANK YOU! • For attending this session and PASS SQLRally Nordic 2013, Stockholm
Editor's Notes
- #18: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #19: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #20: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #21: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #22: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #23: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #24: © David McCandless / InformationIsBeautiful.netGuardian on November 7, 2009Commentary by Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1030Which represents a larger amount: Mortgage Lending 2007 or NHS?How much greater is Mortgage Lending 2007 than State Pensions?Does State Pensions compared with Tesco Revenue look like the difference between 62 and 59, or much greater?Which is bigger: Income Support or Police?
- #25: don’t mix blinking with motion = chartjunk