Q: Does your organization currently use advanced data visualization tools for exploratory data analysis?
Advanced data visualization tools allow users to more easily formulate hypotheses about the data under analysis, which is useful for a variety of BI applications, including exploratory data analysis, visual reporting, and for comparing/assimilating multiple metrics displayed on a single screen or dashboard. Curt Hall was surprised that just over one-fifth of those surveyed were using such tools, predicts increased usage, as the technology is "becoming increasingly embedded to front-end dashboards, scorecards, and other business measurement applications in order to provide less-technical business users with data analysis capabilities."
* Excerpted from "Use of Advanced Data Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis" (
), Business Intelligence Advisor, 19 July 2011