Data visualization
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What does it take to achieve analytics maturity? Earlier this week, Dave Stodder and I hosted a webcast with a panel of vendor experts from Cloudera, Microstrategy, and Tableau. These three companies are all sponsors of the Analytics Maturity Model; an analytics assessment tool that measures where your organization stands relative to its peers in
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I recently completed TDWI’s latest Best Practices Report: Next Generation Analytics and Platforms for Business Success. Although the phrase “next-generation analytics and platforms” can evoke images of machine learning, big data, Hadoop, and the Internet of things (IoT), most organizations are somewhere in between the technology vision and today’s reality of BI and dashboards. For
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I’m a big fan of data visualization because it really helps people understand information. You can certainly derive a lot of insight from a report, but sometimes it helps to look at data in a different way. Dashboards are one way to get information to people in an easily digestible format. However, in order for
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Several weeks ago, Hurwitz & Associates deployed a short survey entitled, “Four questions about innovations in analysis”. Well, the results and they are quite interesting! THE SURVEY First, a few words about the survey itself and who responded to the survey. We wanted to make the survey short and sweet. We were
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Robin Bloor and I were briefed by SAS about some of its visualization technologies last week as part of the research we’re undertaking in innovations in BI. SAS has thought a lot about visualization. In fact, the company has an interesting user centric UI model that actually looks at classes of users across various visualization
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A wise man once told me, “Look at the data. What are the data telling you?” That was my dissertation advisor, some twenty years ago, before the term data visualization was even coined. And that’s the sensible advice I’ve followed throughout my career when analyzing all different kinds of data. Data visualization in the form
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