Data Visualization

Big Data encircling the planet

I can still remember the first time I saw a 1 GB flash drive—it blew my mind. This device, the size of my thumb, could hold the information of 711 3.5-inch floppy disks. But it’s a darn good thing that data is occupying less space these days, since we’re seeing it increase astronomically in volume.[read more]

What's your data story? 

My colleagues and I had the opportunity to represent Attivio at the recent Tableau 8 Roadshow as a partner vendor. Unlike some BI events I have experienced over a number of years, the Tableau 8 Roadshow attendees were very much user-based rather than IT-focused.[read more]

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There are four main types of discovery for business analytics: in no particular order, they are event, data, information and visual. Let’s consider each of them and the potential they hold for realizing full value from business analytics and big data investments.[read more]

perception gap

Consumers believe Sears is just for tools and electronics; is this the perception Sears wants to portray? What is Kroger doing better than others are? Walmart tweets way more frequently than other brands, and consumers reciprocate. 4 brands, 1 week and 100,000 Tweets: this infographic lays it all out for you.[read more]

Predictive analytics for retail (Image Source)

Here's a true business success story that sheds bright light on the awesomeness of big data. It substantiates the notion that you should store every last iota of data – because you don’t know every pattern [read: opportunity] that might be found or explored.[read more]

Bad data

What keeps IT guys up at night? All that bad data their bosses are using to run the business. By establishing these processes, IT departments can cut the business data deluge to a manageable flow of good information, ensuring that the decision-makers downstream aren’t using two wrongs to make a bad insight.[read more]

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Big data is disrupting the world, society and all industries, and it will mark the end of the market research industry as we know it. Unless they are able to adapt and pivot on time, the big data scientist will replace the market researcher, and this will happen faster than one might expect.[read more]

dashboard / shutterstock

Decisions was initially focused on providing an OEM engine for companies in products like Central Logic Core, RCx Rules, CareFamily and Aviacode – everything from medical coding to claims pre-processing and more. More recently they have begun to sell to end user companies.[read more]

big data security

Today's security systems still have long ways to go before being fully integrated in true Big Data sense. Security professionals need to be able to get increasing value from the data they already collect and analyze, on top of the data they still are not getting. Here are some key considerations.[read more]

data visualizations that pack a punch

Good data communication hinges on picking right chart. The patterns and insights almost magically emerge when you choose a chart or visualization that emphasizes the important elements in your data. Unfortunately, this is one of the biggest struggles for inexperienced presenters of data.[read more]

decision management: democratizing data (shutterstock)

Democratizing data cannot just mean helping more knowledge workers have more fun with their query and visualization tools. It has to mean democratizing data-driven decision making throughout the organization, and that will take a new generation of decision-making systems.[read more]

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In the Harvard Business Review blog article by senior editor Scott Berinato, “Your Business Needs Insight, Not Just Pretty Pictures” (March 19, 2013), the author identifies an important trend in business communication. “Data comes first,” he wrote, “and it’s increasingly visual.”[read more]

data visualization

Data analysis is becoming a bigger part of more people's lives. No matter what our profession or background, we can all benefit from data visualization – a key aspect of data discovery software – to help us tell compelling stories, ask and answer more questions, and take the right actions.[read more]

Data visualizations

Which of these data visualizations is best? Re-usable in other contexts? What about videos showing growth over time, or more sophisticated graphs where link thickness represents "Internet highway" bandwidth or speed? Let us know what you think in the comments.[read more]

Business Intelligence

How do you assess the overall health and maturity of your Business Intelligence Initiative? This article is the first in a series that reviews the topics to be considered when reviewing the current status of a traditional Business Intelligence initiative.[read more]