Yap Xiong's Profile

leverage information assets through personalized, real-time business intelligence dashboards.

The first step to ensure success is to have an organization define key performance indicators that best illustrate progress toward its objectives.

depending on a company’s focus and business goals

visibility they provide into the peaks and valleys of an organization’s performance

nonprofits

The visual intelligence offered by dashboard technology enables the agility needed to make smart decisions quickly.

reporting tool to spotlight results in client-facing scenarios

opening up more time for strategic planning, removing the guesswork of assessing each activity’s impact and providing users with insight to determine if goals and objectives have been met or if they remain on track

empower users to map PR activities directly to lead generation

only valuable when populated with the appropriate data.

Sometimes the results or the fear of what the data will show creates conflict.

decision-makers may observe trends that put them in a difficult position

strong programming background with experience in Processing, Actionscript, or some other similar language and probably have worked with large databases at one point or another

analyzers want to know the relationships between variables, find positive and negative trends, and are most likely to tell you that you should have used a different type of graph or chart for that dataset

obsessed with the final product - what the visualization will finally look like

designers

field experts who want to visualize their data but might not have the know-how to follow through

usually handle a large data visualization project on their own

Visualization - graphs, tools, etc.

skills and talents from often disjoint areas of expertise:

We're seeing data scientists - people who can do it all - emerge from the rest of the pack.

Oftentimes, visualization projects are disjoint processes and involve a lot of waiting

Terabytes of data are coming in whether it be from websites or from sales across the country, but in an area where Excel is the tool of choice (or force), there are limitations, hence all the tools, applications, and consultancies to help out.

the more you learn, the more you can do, and the higher in demand you will be as the amount of data grows and the more people want to make use of it.

a good information graphic should begin to tell the story at first glance, before you have to read anything.

but the overall theme should be clear without resorting to text