Data Visualisation explained, Business Intelligence
What is data visualisation?
Hugh Meagher, the Technical Practice lead for business intelligence and financial modelling in MXI, believes there are many ways we can use the data that surrounds us in our life’s and that we humans need a little help in understanding that data. As the clutter increases its impossible not to be distracted making the ability to visualise vital. If you can see the problem clearly, you can explain it to others, you are most of the way to making correcting the problem.
Tableau Training may not be needed
As a business intelligence specialist Hugh helps people every day visualise data in their business large or small. Connecting to data warehouses, setting up ETL, Hugh creates beautiful astonishing business dashboards, information dashboards usually using the Tableau Software. The terms dashboard evokes cars intentionally. A dashboard in the car is just on the eyeline of the driver providing vital up to date information.
Visualisation brings data to life.
Visualisations create pictures from data, giving life to the expression a picture paints a 1000 words. Visual analytics is what Tableau does in its day job. Tableau invented the term visual analytics which means analytical processing of your data followed by automatically produced visualisations, converting the data into pictures / dashboards aiding human reasoning. Software to help you think we call it.
Thought for the day in data visualisations.
- Quick search time,
- Optimise memory usage,
- Be creative.