Q: Does your organization currently use advanced data visualization tools for exploratory data analysis?
Curt Hall was surprised to find that only one-third of responders don't yet use advanced data visualization tools, since their highly interactive nature "allows 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." Hall anticipates steady growth in their use, as vendors embed the technology in 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" (
), Data Insight & Social BI Advisor, 19 July 2011.