Browsing: Visualization

If you’re a data scientist, there’s a big chance that the question, “how do I most efficiently show the results of my work?” is on your mind a lot. After all, it doesn’t matter how elegant your code is or how innovative your approach is if you can’t effectively convey your findings to your audience.

Data visualizations do more than display numbers; good data visualizations tell a story not only to educate, but also to engage and inspire their audiences. Data is crucial for informing knowledge work and measuring the impact of sustainable development programs. The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the World Bank’s Development Data Group often…

Data is critical to an organization’s operations. It reveals important insights and helps them better understand their customers. However, raw data can be complex, so organizations need a way to digest and share this data in a more comprehensible way. Data visualization is the process of representing data graphically, making it easier to understand. To…

The Charles Schwab Corp. has deployed Tableau’s self-service BI and data visualization tools enterprise-wide to about 16,000 employees overall. The financial services firm uses the software to create dashboards for corporate executives, retail branch managers, financial consultants and other workers. There are even dashboards that track usage and performance data on the operational dashboards.

With large datasets, numbers and tables are often difficult to interpret. Key trends, patterns, and outliers can, as a result, go unnoticed, slowing analysis and reducing precision in decision-making. The problem is that these charts and dashboards turn complex information into clear insight we can use with data visualization tools.

While working with data, it can be difficult to truly understand your data when it’s just in tabular form. To understand what exactly our data conveys, and to better clean it and select suitable models for it, we need to visualize it or represent it in pictorial form. This helps expose patterns, correlations, and trends…