Evaluation and Analysis of Business Intelligence Data Visualization Tools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Lousa ◽  
Isabel Pedrosa ◽  
Jorge Bernardino
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Visualization Tools

LiveSankey: Advanced Web Visualization in Data Intelligence Multi Domain Contexts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Conejero ◽  
Juan Carlos Preciado ◽  
Alvaro E. Prieto ◽  
Roberto Rodriguez-Echeverria ◽  
Fernando Sánchez-Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Web Visualization ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Multiple Conditions

In the last years, the growing volumes and sources of data has made Big Data technologies to become mainstream. In that sense, techniques like Data Visualization are being used more and more to group large amounts of data in order to transform them into useful information. Nevertheless, these techniques are currently included in Business Intelligence approaches to provide companies and public organizations with helpful tools for making decisions based on evidences instead of intuition. The Sankey diagram is an example of those complex visualization tools allowing the user to graphically trace meaningful relationships in large volumes of data. However, this type of diagram is usually static so they must be continuously and manually rebuilt on top of massive multivariable environments whenever decision makers need to evaluate different options and they do not allow to establish conditions over the data shown. This paper presents LiveSankey, an approach to automatically generate dynamic Sankey Diagrams allowing users to filter the data shown. As a result, multiple conditions may be established over the data used and the corresponding diagram can be dynamically rebuilt.

scholarly journals Mining Open Government Data for Business Intelligence Using Data Visualization: A Two-Industry Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1042-1065
Author(s):  
Anne Gottfried ◽  
Caroline Hartmann ◽  
Donald Yates
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Source Of Information

The business intelligence (BI) market has grown at a tremendous rate in the past decade due to technological advancements, big data and the availability of open source content. Despite this growth, the use of open government data (OGD) as a source of information is very limited among the private sector due to a lack of knowledge as to its benefits. Scant evidence on the use of OGD by private organizations suggests that it can lead to the creation of innovative ideas as well as assist in making better informed decisions. Given the benefits but lack of use of OGD to generate business intelligence, we extend research in this area by exploring how OGD can be used to generate business intelligence for the identification of market opportunities and strategy formulation; an area of research that is still in its infancy. Using a two-industry case study approach (footwear and lumber), we use latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to extract emerging topics in these two industries from OGD, and a data visualization tool (pyLDAVis) to visualize the topics in order to interpret and transform the data into business intelligence. Additionally, we perform an environmental scanning of the environment for the two industries to validate the usability of the information obtained. The results provide evidence that OGD can be a valuable source of information for generating business intelligence and demonstrate how topic modeling and visualization tools can assist organizations in extracting and analyzing information for the identification of market opportunities.

scholarly journals Developing effective data visualization tools for nutrition: reflections on the design of a Nutrition Scorecard in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Yashodhara Rana ◽  
Gianni Dongo ◽  
Caroline Snead ◽  
Grace Agi ◽  
Oluwagbenga Sadik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Collaborative Efforts ◽  
Constructive Action

There has been a growing number of nutrition data visualization tools (DVTs) to monitor progress towards targets and encourage action. However, there are few documented examples of how to go about designing effective DVTs for nutrition-related audiences. In this Open Letter, we summarize reflections from collaborative efforts between the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation project (DataDENT) in 2019-2021 to design a sub-national nutrition scorecard that aims to hold Nigeria’s 36 Governors accountable to nutrition commitments. Our reflections add to an emerging body of work advocating for DVT design processes to develop a specific theory of change for how the DVT will influence target groups and achieve aims. Once the target audience is identified, it is important to create a strong engagement strategy to ensure that the DVT promotes constructive action. We also highlight the importance of identifying actionable indicators through participatory processes. We hope that these insights about collaborative DVT design can be applied by countries and institutions who want to develop similar tools to advance the nutrition agenda in their context.

Semiotic Content of Visuals and Communication

2014 ◽  
pp. 174-192
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Living Organisms

The semiotic content of visual design makes a foundation for non-verbal communication applied to practice, especially for visualizing knowledge. The ways signs convey meaning define the notion of semiotics. After inspection of the notions of sign systems, codes, icons, and symbols further text examines how to tie a sign or symbol to that for which it stands, combine images, and think figuratively or metaphorically. Further text introduces basic information about communication through metaphors, analogies, and about the scientific study of biosemiotics, which examines communication in living organisms aimed at conveying meaning, communicating knowledge about natural processes, and designing the biological data visualization tools.

Strategy, Action Plan, and Approaches for Business Intelligence in Banking and Mining

2019 ◽  
pp. 305-325
Author(s):  
Hafeez Niazi
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Critical Success

This case study will analyze the critical success factors and key matters related to the deployment of BI deployment in different organizations. Different organizations have different approaches to making BI available for different business users, divisions, and departments. Data visualization is also one of the important factors which will provide user better reflection of data rather than make them confuse about organization data with too much information in the reports and dashboards. Data quality and diverse standards, which make BI famous in the different organizations, are also analyzed during the investigation of both organizations used in this case study. The case study analysis also shows how BI maturity, governance, and framework are key factors involved in the successful deployment of the BI in different organizations.

scholarly journals A Virtual Reality Platform for Analyzing Remote Archaeological Sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Cassidy ◽  
Gavin Sim ◽  
David Wayne Robinson ◽  
Devlin Gandy
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Native American ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
World Class ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Survey Evaluation

Abstract This paper describes a Virtual Reality (VR) prototype developed to help archaeologists and other stakeholders explore and analyse archaeological data in a more immersive context. We describe a VR reconstruction of Pleito Cave, a fragile world class rock-art site with accessibility limitation. Key stakeholders are identified and a prototype is described that provides a VR platform for visualizing and interacting with complex archaeological data (gathered from techniques such as decorrelation stretch and X-ray fluorescence) virtually ‘in situ’, in a way that would not be possible at the real site. The prototype allows multiple remote users to interact with the cave together remotely providing opportunities for collaborative interpretation and analysis of archaeological data. We also present a survey-based evaluation in which both archaeologists and Native American stakeholders indicate positive responses for measures of both engagement and value. Research Highlights An interactive, multi-user, immersive archaeological data visualization tool is described. Survey evaluation elicits insights into where the system provides value and engagement for key stakeholders. Thematic Analysis provides further design insights for future development of immersive archaeological data visualization tools.

scholarly journals Data Visualization Tools for Materials Properties Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 00014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artem Obkhodsky ◽  
Sergey Kuznetsov ◽  
Alexander Popov ◽  
Aleksey Zolotarev ◽  
Victor Sachkov
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Materials Properties ◽  
Visualization Tools
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