CHAPTER 2

Visualization

Sharing data and information is an essential part of academic research and professional operations. Creating a common understanding of the information among analysts, managers, and other stakeholders is a challenge. We can often achieve a common understanding of the data and information by summarizing. Transformation of raw data to a processed, compact, and understandable format facilitates communication of the data and a common understanding among different groups. Business analytics refers to the skills, technologies, applications and practices for exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight to aid business planning.

Methods of data communication are important, particularly when discussing ...

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