A colleague pointed me to an interesting article, Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content, that lays out some interesting techniques people and companies are using for visualizing their data.
Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications.
In the article, Kurt lays out some simple ways to get the most out of your data including:
- Get your data out of your reports.
- Make it easy to find.
- Make it portable.
- Connect it to the user.
- Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis.
- Cultivate a community around your data.
- Feed your raw data to the world.
- Just get started!
The article also has plenty of useful links to these widely available data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel, Widgenie, Many Eyes, Google Maps, Google Motion Charts, APIs and more to make data more available and more compelling.
Ultimately, when it comes to visualizing and sharing your data online, there is no substitute for creativity, design sense, analytic and statistical expertise, and a thorough understanding of your audiences.”
Read the entire article here.
Thanks to Dave for the link.
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- Business - Discusses general business concepts, techniques, and information of interest.
- Business Intelligence - Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context.
- Data Integrity - Data integrity is the assurance that data is consistent and correct.
- Decision Making - Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives.
- Visualization - Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.
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