Experienced UX designers will likely be familiar with its fundamental principles, which revolve around meeting the users' needs, focusing on usability and keeping the design consistent. Any renowned digital agency will operate based upon these principles. The...
We all know the what 2D and 3D are. And depending on your industry, you might be familiar with 4D as well. So it might surprise you that in the AEC software world, we’re already talking about 7D. What is 7D? 7D is a concept being talked about in relation to BIM...
As a remote team, it is often hard to bridge the distance between employees that may very well have miles between them. In a lot of cases, words simply do not cover it. You cannot explain a statistic to your employee using words at least not very well. This is where...
With just about everyone stuck at home to reduce the spread of COVID-19, lots of people are taking an interest in following the progression of the virus data and understanding what it means. Health experts, economists, and others who are trying to mitigate the damage...
Assessing the quality of the user experience that your product offers is undeniably important, but it is worth emphasizing why UX research is a good investment to help motivate you to make this a priority. Here are just some of the main reasons that UX research is...
Word clouds, also referred to as tag clouds are a way to characterize the content of a block of text visually. The text for the word cloud can be pulled from websites, blogs, and social media profiles. A word cloud will pull out the most common words found in the text...
Big data is a big deal. But getting the most out of the effort you put into data collection and using it in a meaningful way requires a few things. Data needs to be organized and presented in a way that makes it easy to comprehend and explore. It should also present...
The practice of using information, or data, is nothing new, but technology has revolutionized how we collect, store and present that information. With the help of powerful data analytics and visualization tools. Some of these tools, such as IBM’s Many Eyes, are...
User experience (UX) was one of the top trending topics for businesses this past year. You can barely browse through any business blog or magazine without seeing something about improving the UX of your website. Obviously, UX is important and influential over...
Dashboard to its user is what an assistant is his boss. While an assistant helps in managing multiple tasks for his boss, dashboard helps in managing multiple data sources for its user. Your insights are as good as you present your data and dashboards are an excellent...
Virtual reality (VR) is changing the way people play games and watch videos, the way people advertise on social media, the way we approach education and health care and perhaps, the way we approach the data analysis. “Big Data” is a term used to describe the volumes...
A well-designed desktop or mobile website doesn't just appear overnight. In fact, you need to go through a long process before you can publish your website. From concept sketches to a production-ready web app can, the entire process can take many months. But what if...
In today’s age of information, data is undeniably one of the most important factors for ensuring your business’ growth. Big data is transforming the world of business as it can simplify the process of finding new opportunities by giving valuable insights from data....
Data has grown increasingly complex over recent years, thanks in no small part to computers becoming fundamental to how all businesses work. This has its positives, as the more data and metrics a company can work with, the more performant and reactive the be. The real...
People are able to process visual information much faster than textual content. For this reason, data visualization is an essential model of contemporary business intelligence. There are hundreds of techniques to present business-related information and sometimes it...
Data Visualization is an art of presenting data in a manner that even a non-analyst can understand it. A perfect blend of aesthetic elements like colours, dimensions and labels can create visual masterpieces, hence revealing surprising business insights which in turn...
We’ve all seen one of those movies that is widely critically acclaimed, but which we don’t enjoy watching. There are many movies like this that come out each year. The critics rave, the indie awards are heaped on, and audiences never bother to tune in. Why is that?...
The Big Data landscape is defined by four Vs - volume, velocity, veracity, and variety. It also includes interactive data visuals that convey insights and engage the user. The classical understanding of visualization in analytics involves presenting the results of...
Data visualization is the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format. It enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually, so they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. This infographic explains the nine golden rules of data...
Big Data is amazing. It describes our everyday behavior, keeps track of the places we go, stores what we like to do and how much time we spend doing our favorite activities. Big Data is made of numbers, and I think we all agree when we say: Numbers are difficult to...
Representation of data via maps is a rapidly developing area of visualization that has many practical applications. Today, we have a wide range of innovative tools for a visual representation of geographical data for maps and other purposes. This article offers you a...
Big data is growing increasingly important. It can shape many core actions businesses take. As a result, it’s important that you understand how best to communicate the importance of this data. This is especially critical, as many decision-making managers simply don’t...
In just a few short years, the Internet has come along to change virtually everything we know about the way human beings communicate with one another. Take the social media phenomenon, for example. As of today, 52% of adults in the United States have a social media...
At its core, data visualization is a simple concept - it involves taking data and presenting it in a graphical format, either in the form of something like a picture or a graph or an Infographic or a combination of all these techniques and more. It's an idea that has...
Writing about data is not the easiest task that ever befell a wordsmith. Data is necessarily intangible. It’s a cluster of information that can communicate a concept if perfectly arranged. On its own, data doesn’t have a voice. It’s just points of information. As a...
Online users are generating data at an outstanding pace. The stats of 2016 DOMO Data Never Sleeps 4.0 reveal some staggering numbers. Every minute of every day, over 18 billion megabytes of wireless data is used...by Americans alone! From Twitter to Tinder (and every...
Listening to music makes the everyday task of driving from A to B, a little bit less boring. Whether your music tastes lie with ACDC or Mozart, we all love to bop along to our favourite tunes whilst in the car. But just how does the music you listen to affect your...
Many people spend their day sifting through data, combining multiple data sources, and finally getting data ready for the moment of truth: seeing it in a data visualization. Data visualizations are the culmination of all data crunching work–they’re supposed to take...
I have been a web developer for over 6 years, and during my work life, I have worked both on front end and back end web development. In the past 6 years, I have seen innumerable people interchange UI(User Interface) and UX(User Experience), some even mid-sentence,...
You already know that Pandas is a power tool for data munging. In this tutorial, I will show you how to explore a data set using Pandas, Numpy and Matplotlib. My goal for this project is to determine if the gap between Africa/Latin America/Asia and Europe/North...
Sales (purchasing or conversion) Funnel is a consumer-focused marketing model which illustrates the theoretical customer journey towards the purchase of a product or service. Classically, the Sales funnel includes at least four steps: Awareness– the customer becomes...
Depending on the sites you frequent and the social media you consume, you might think the Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling went over rather poorly. Maybe you spend a lot of time in the comments section of the National Review or have that one uncle from...
In this post, we will review a very interesting type of visualization – the Multi-layer Pie Chart – and use it for one of the marketing analytics tasks – the shopping carts analysis. We will go from the initial data processing to the shopping carts analysis...
Rule #1: No tool will turn you into a pro. Given the rapid development of visualization technology you might be tempted to adopt the latest technology thinking that it will turn you into a pro. This is not the case. There is no tool that can make you a pro, unless you...
Inspiration: it makes your eyes wide and your brain start ticking. Most importantly, it’s a powerful force to drive new ideas. If you’re looking for inspiration for a graphic design project, there’s no better way to motivate yourself than to see good design in action....
In this article we'll explore a neat way of visualizing your MP3 music collection. The end result will be a hexagonal map of all your songs, with similar sounding tracks located next to each other. The color of different regions corresponds to different genres of...
It's always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. I mean, it's a challenge to pick and rank your favorite anything really. So much depends on what you feel like at the time, and there's a lot of good work out there. Nevertheless, I gave it a go. These are...
Data visualization is the graphical representation of data. It provides an easy way to understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data by using visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps. It is an effective tool to communicate. But to realize their potential,...
Qlik QLIK, a leader in data discovery, today introduced Qlik® Sense Desktop, a free version of its next-generation data visualization application that delivers a simple drag-and-drop interface for business users to rapidly create interactive visualizations, reports,...
Visualization is critical to data analysis. Data by itself, consisting of bits and bytes stored in a computer hard drive, is invisible. In order to be able to see and make any sense of data, we need to visualize it. Watch these TED videos to get deep insights on Data...
This list of top 30 thought leaders in Data Visualization is based on recommendations and opinions by visualization experts in various social media channels. The names are listed alphabetically. 1. Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin is a digital media artist, best known for...
This list contains almost all frequently-updated Big Data blogs, belonging to a wide range of categories: Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Leaning, Data Visualization, Data Mining, NoSQL, Hadoop etc. The blogs are arranged alphabetically....
Looking for a best web-based visualisation tools to visualizing your data? Here is a list of top 20 web-based visualisation tools. 1. Datawrapper Datawrapper is an open source tool helping anyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes. It is easy...
Big data has become an increasingly popular, as more business users seek to leverage analytics for innovative improvements. But, without visual representations of big data, insights can be difficult to obtain. So, it is key to choose a right visualization tool. So,...
Data visualization is the presentation of quantitative information in a graphical form. A data visualization tool turns large and small datasets into visuals that are easier for the human brain to understand and process. Now, are you looking for a simple tool to...
Data visualization is the presentation of quantitative information in a graphical form. A data visualization tool turns large and small datasets into visuals that are easier for the human brain to understand and process. Now, are you looking for a simple tool to...
Data visualization is the presentation of quantitative information in a graphical form. A data visualization tool turns large and small datasets into visuals that are easier for the human brain to understand and process. Now, are you looking for a simple tool to...
Are you a hard-core enthusiast of data visualization? Or a beginner, who wants to learn and be able to create more effective visualisations? Check out our list of 35 invaluable books you must read for better visualization. (Some books in the list might not be directly...
Could you use a data visualization lift in your life and work? I never thought I'd be that guy who tracks his fitness data. But a few months ago I tapped on the Nike+ app on my iPod Nano and after about a mile I was a running data junkie. The lure of easy information...
In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals. The “traditional” methods of business intelligence (BI) show and tell...