Book description
Data is powerful. It separates leaders from laggards and it drives business disruption, transformation, and reinvention. Today’s most progressive companies are using the power of data to propel their industries into new areas of innovation, specialization, and optimization. The horsepower of new tools and technologies have provided more opportunities than ever to harness, integrate, and interact with massive amounts of disparate data for business insights and value – something that will only continue in the era of the Internet of Things. And, as a new breed of tech-savvy and digitally native knowledge workers rise to the ranks of data scientist and visual analyst, the needs and demands of the people working with data are changing, too.
The world of data is changing fast. And, it’s becoming more visual.
Visual insights are becoming increasingly dominant in information management, and with the reinvigorated role of data visualization, this imperative is a driving force to creating a visual culture of data discovery. The traditional standards of data visualizations are making way for richer, more robust and more advanced visualizations and new ways of seeing and interacting with data. However, while data visualization is a critical tool to exploring and understanding bigger and more diverse and dynamic data, by understanding and embracing our human hardwiring for visual communication and storytelling and properly incorporating key design principles and evolving best practices, we take the next step forward to transform data visualizations from tools into unique visual information assets.
- Discusses several years of in-depth industry research and presents vendor tools, approaches, and methodologies in discovery, visualization, and visual analytics
- Provides practicable and use case-based experience from advisory work with Fortune 100 and 500 companies across multiple verticals
- Presents the next-generation of visual discovery, data storytelling, and the Five Steps to Data Storytelling with Visualization
- Explains the Convergence of Visual Analytics and Visual discovery, including how to use tools such as R in statistical and analytic modeling
- Covers emerging technologies such as streaming visualization in the IOT (Internet of Things) and streaming animation
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: How Data is Driving Business Disruption, Transformation, and Reinvention
- Part II: Communicating Data Visually
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Part III: Building the Foundation for Data Visualization
- Introduction
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Chapter 10: Architecting for discovery
- Abstract
- 10.1. Key information challenges for data discovery
- 10.2. Tackling today’s information challenges
- 10.3. Designing for frictionless
- 10.4. Enabling governed data discovery
- 10.5. Conclusions
- 10.6. Anatomy of a visual discovery application
- 10.7. The convergence of visual analytics and visual discovery
- Chapter 11: Data visualization as a core competency
- Chapter 12: Visual discovery by design
- Chapter 13: The need for visualization in the Internet of Things
- Appendix
- Subject Index
Product information
- Title: The Visual Imperative
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2016
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780128039304
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