by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 17, 2013 | Data Visualization, Operational Dashboards
It’s easy to spot a “bad” data visualization—one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided such decorations as redundant at best, useless at worst, labeling them “chart junk.” Yet a debate still...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 14, 2013 | Dashboards/Scorecards, Data Visualization
OLAP.com Commentary: This article from Computerworld uses an example from Nathan Yau’s book Data Points: Visualization That Means Something to show how to draw users to points of interest when presenting data visually. When you look at a visualization for the...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 2, 2013 | BI Strategy, Data Visualization
The point of Data Visualization Many business intelligence tools available today are failing to deliver actual intelligence. IT has made a great technical progress in data integration, cleansing of transformation as well as in construction of big and efficient data...
by Jessica Otero | Sep 20, 2013 | Analytical Dashboards, Data Analysis
Whether you’re new to predictive analytics or have a few projects under your belt, it’s all too easy to make gaffes. “The vast majority of analytic projects are riddled with mistakes,” says John Elder, CEO at data mining firm Elder Research....
by Jessica Otero | Sep 19, 2013 | Data Visualization
It may be difficult to register, but traditional CRM solutions have been around for 15-20 years (Siebel Systems was founded in 1993 and Salesforce.com in 1998). Since then, they have evolved from simple contact management solutions to sophisticated commercial...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Sep 13, 2013 | Data Analysis, Data Visualization
Data visualization has come a long way. From simple cave drawings depicting the success of a hunt to the intricate dashboards we have today connecting to millions of rows of data. It’s always good to know where you came from in order to better understand where you are...
