analyzing data with advanced visualizations

Analyzing Data with Advanced Visualizations

rajesh.ramaswamy@marlabs.com

A picture speaks a thousand words!

Why is visualization so important?

- A quick demo

It is equally important to do the correct visualization

Visualizing Unstructured Data

Visualizing Analytics

Other non-standard visualizations

What is the moral of the story?

- Identify the information that you want to visualize- Where is it?

- How is it accessible?

- How big is it?

- How many perspectives does it have

- Who will use it?

Decide on how best to visualize the data

-Track rises and falls over time- Line graph- Stack graph- Categories Stack graph

- See relationships among data points- Scatterplot- Matrix chart- Network Diagram

- Compare a set of values- Bar chart- Block histogram- Bubble chart

- See parts of a whole- Pie Chart- Tree Map- Analyze a text- Word tree- Wordle

- See the world- Mapping

-Chose the tool that allows helps you visualize the information

- BI tools (commercial or open source)- In memory analytics- Specialized visualization tools

- Build a framework that allows you to integrate the visualization with the sources of data

- Build and distribute the visualization

- Get feedback and improve

Thank You