Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Make charts easy to interpret

For IoT data, time series analysis is very common. Analyzing trends in IoT sensor values over time is useful for people in roles such as technical support, marketing, quality, and engineering. Time series charts communicate trend data more effectively than pareto charts or pie charts. Since you will be employing them quite a bit, it is important to make them as effective as you can. When creating charts, keep some things in mind to help make it easy for your audience to draw the conclusions that you intended.

In most cases, you have looked at the data in far more ways than you will be making available to your audience. You picked the charts that best convey what you have learned from your analysis of the data. ...