Presented to the Master of Management Analytics (MMA) students from Queen's School of Business on the topic of Data Visualization

1. 1
Data
Visualization
Information
Design
discover stories and meaning in the data…

2. 2
discover stories and meaning in the data…
…and communicate them visually with clarity,
precision and efficiency
…if we can’t communicate it in
a way that makes sense to our
audience

3. 3
…if we can’t communicate it in
a way that makes sense to our
audience
All our analytical
insights will amount
to nothing…

4. 4
science
engineering
healthcare
wayfinding
economics
journalism
marketing
business
?

5. 5
confusing,
uninspiring,
inefficient…
It’s nothing new!

6. 6
How did business fall behind?
bigdata
little information
Microsoft = “chart junk”
businesses =
Microsoft
Moore’s Law style of
thinking, chasing the
latest technology
left brain
focused
enter the age
of the
customer

7. 7
discovery
exploratory,
looking for signals analysts, engineers,
scientist
discovery
exploratory,
looking for signals analysts, engineers,
scientist
monitoring
dashboards, current
status of organizational
health management,
senior leadership

8. 8
hybrid
interactive, combines
dashboards with exploration
into causality
analysts, management
hybrid
interactive, combines
dashboards with exploration
into causality
analysts, management
storytelling
infographics,
fewer
assumptions
about the
readers
knowledge
anyone

9. 9
thank
you