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Data visualisation hacks
John Smith needs to track performance across multiple levels of his business. A possible solution is a multi-level drill-down tree-map/heatmap visualization that allows viewing performance at the team, manager, customer, account, and campaign levels. This could be built using the YUI and D3 JavaScript libraries.
Data visualisation hacks
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- 2. Business Data VisualizationChallenge Problem: John Smith is a Sales Director. He has 15 Managers, spread across 5 teams reporting to him. Each of these managers handles multiple customers. Each of these customers has multiple accounts. Each account has multiple campaigns. Phew! He needs to be able to track performance at the team level, the manager level, customer level, account level and finally the campaign level.
- 3. A concept viewof John’s business, for reference John •• Smith Team A Team D Team E Manager Manager T R Customer Customer Customer 1 2 3 Account A Account B Account C Campaign Campaign Campaign A B C
- 4. Possible Solutions • Amulti-level drill-down tree-map/heatmap visualization • Reference: www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the- market/ • Technology - using YUI and javascript .d3 library
- 5. Snapshot Problem : • Asa owner of website www.XYZ.com , John would like to know the engagement and reach of his website with his target audience. • His target audience is spread across multiple geographies and across different age groups • He would like to know the page views, uu, time spent for his website. • visualize a solution for John, to help him get a quick view of his website
- 6. Network Map Dashboard Problem: •John runs a manufacturing factory that he inherited from his uncle. He is tech savy, but his uncle believed in traditional methods. John realized that all the processes in the factory are linked, and there are dependencies. His uncle had told him that tracking the progress of the various processes is a big challenge.
- 7. Possible Solution • Createa network map visualization with each node as a process and at any point in time it should tell John, if any processes have failed and if because of this other dependent processes are not able to run
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