The document discusses a panel on data visualization. It introduces the panelists from various organizations and their roles. Common themes of visual storytelling, easier comprehension of data through visualization, and spotting trends are discussed. John Teresko is quoted about how data visualization can help turn data into useful information. Examples of data visualization projects from different industries are briefly described.

1. Data Visualization

2. Agenda
• Introductions
• The topic – panelist roles and perspectives
• Posing questions to the panelists
– My questions
– Your questions
• Closing thoughts

3. Panelists
• Deana McDonagh
– University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Brad Foster
– MavenWave
• Derek Debe
– AbbVie
• Yugandhar Reddy Boyapally
– Yahoo!

4. Common Themes
• Visual story telling
• Easier to understand/comprehend than
numbers in tables
• Easier to spot trends and issues
• Art and Science

5. “TOO MUCH DATA, TOO LITTLE
INFORMATION”
• “Data is the organizational challenge of the next
century. Competitive success -- even business
survival -- will depend on the ability to quickly
turn it into comprehensible information.”
John Teresko, Industry Week
August 19, 1996

6. “TOO MUCH DATA, TOO LITTLE
INFORMATION”
• “Part of that new potential is data visualization,
the art and/or science of accessing, structuring,
and graphically presenting the information
contained in corporate data.”
John Teresko, Industry Week
August 19, 1996

7. design thinking

8. cow dung

9. explore

10. different
perspective

15. dyslexia

17. Aymeric Vildieu

21. Paassen / Shutterstock.com

22. Brad Foster - Quick Bio
20 Years of Technology
Consulting Experience with a
Wide Range of Solutions and
Industries
● Data Analytics / Data Warehousing
● Information Governance & eDiscovery
● ERP
● Custom Applications
● Product Management (Youtube for
Enterprise, Google Apps Data Service)
Summary
Solutions Technologies
Clients

23. About Maven Wave
Strategy-led, results-driven consulting and technology
CLOUD
USER EXPERIENCE
& DESIGN
DATA
ANALYTICS
TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTIONS
MANAGEMENT
CONSULTING

24. Our Big Data Platform Focus
Unstructured
Structured
Blogs
Documents
Emails
Surveys
HTML
CRM
ERP
Billing
Data Sources
Sensors
OR

25. Visualization Example - Retail Marketing
Situation
The marketing department lacked the ability to
easily obtain and analyze data to determine
program performance or gain business insights
for the recommendation of new programs.
Solution
 Implemented a cloud-based analytics platform
that included Tableau, Google BigQuery, and
Talend
 Delivered over 40 Tableau reports and
dashboards
 Training and support of marketing users
Company
A leading consumer home goods chain with
approx 200 stores and $1B in annual revenue.

26. Derek A. Debe, Ph.D.
11/11/2015
BIG Data Visualization
in Biopharmaceutical
R&D

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Me
© 2015
Derek A. Debe, PhD.
Senior Principal Research Scientists at Abbvie (Discovery Research)
Lead a group of ~20 data scientists and software engineers
B.S. Physics, B.S. Math from University of Minnesota
PhD. Computational Chemistry, Caltech (William A. Goddard III)
Derek Debe’s dedicated denizens deliver data-driven drug discovery.
Data dilemmas deter development.

28. All Industries: Are We Enabled To Win The Information Race?
Company Confidential © 2015

29. 29
Big Data in Life Sciences
© 2015

30. 30
Why? High Variety and Veracity
© 2015
http://www.intergen.co.nz/blog/Tim-Mole/dates/2013/8/musings-from-a-big-data-conference/

31. 31
We Have A “Beautiful Data” Problem
Company Confidential © 2015
Visualization plays a key role in complex data-driven decision making

32. 32
Data Actionability – Integration, Visualization, & Even Social
Company Confidential © 2015

33. 33
Diversity of Sources A Major Challenge
Company Confidential © 2015
Structured Data Information
What’s New?
What’s Urgent?
What’s Known?

34. 34
Delivering Actionability
Company Confidential © 2015
Structured Data Information
What’s New?
What’s Urgent?
What’s Known?

35. Lots of High Hanging Fruit
Company Confidential © 2015

37. Data Visualization
Big Data Summit, Research Park
PRESENTED BY Yugandhar Reddy Boyapally⎪ November 11, 2015

38. What do we do?
 Yahoo Champaign has been into Big Data projects right from its
inception in 2007
 Core Hadoop
 Advertising and Audience pipelines
 Our day-to-day work is all about data, data, and more data
● Billions of events per day
● Hundreds of TBs per day
 Increase in need for instant feedback
● real-time from batch processing
● Efforts for making real-time as SOT

39. Data Visualization projects
 Projects with data visualizations
● Audience analytics
● Over a Billion unique visitors to Yahoo properties
● High-level metrics and be able to slice and dice to granular level
● Traffic quality insights
● Flurry (https://developer.yahoo.com/analytics)
 Technologies
● Ember.js
● Node.js
● React
● Bootstrap
● Custom charting libraries using D3
● and many more...

40. Thank you!

41. Q&A Discussion
• Deana McDonagh
– University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Brad Foster
– MavenWave
• Derek Debe
– AbbVie
• Yugandhar Reddy Boyapally
– Yahoo!
• Moderator – Mark Nolan

42. Thank You!