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OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis: IBM

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://breakinggov.com/author/brand-niemann/

July 27, 2013http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/IBM

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Background• DRAFT White Paper for OMB Pittsburgh, July 11, 2013.• Start With the End in Mind, Avoid Tool and Turf Wars, and Develop

Well-designed Spreadsheets That Can be “Dragged and Dropped” Onto a Tool That Creates Statistics and Visualizations in the Public and Private Clouds.

• Focus on Requirements Analysis by First Comparing Magic Quadrant Leaders and Challengers on Common Data Sets.

• Spotfire Was Able to Reproduce Birst, Information Builders, Logi Analytics, Microsoft, QlikView, SAS, and Tableau Data Visualizations With Dynamically Linked Visualizations.

• Broaden This Requirements Analysis to Include More Sample Data Sets and Tools.

• IBM Is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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Gartner BI Magic Quadrant: IBM IBM Analytics Strengths and Cautions Excerpts

• Analytic Answers was another significant offering added recently. Gartner has predicted that, by 2014, up to 40% of analytics projects will be service-led and software-supported. IBM, delivering "analytics as a service," will enable organizations to mitigate one of the most critical nontechnical barriers to advanced analytics adoption: the lack of analytical skills. Analytic Answers is not simply a cloud offering that enables a shorter time to market, or turns capital expenditure into operating expenditure to encourage business analytics adoption. Rather, it is an analytics platform with prebuilt, domain-specific data models and embedded, relevant, statistical and advanced analytical algorithms that offer answers to industry-specific questions. This offering will enable IBM to effectively leverage its complete analytical assets — including analytical software, hardware, analytical knowledge, industrial practices, intellectual property and cloud delivery model — to allow maximum user access to IBM advanced analytics capabilities.

• Performance remains a concern, although primarily with the Cognos 8 BI base. • References continue to cite the Cognos products as more difficult to use.• My Note: I added from the Many Eyes FAQ: Many Eyes was created in 2007 by the Visual

Communication Lab, part of Collaborative User Experience group, at IBM Research. It is brought to you now jointly by the Visual Communication Lab and the IBM Cognos software group.– http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/page/FAQ.htmlNote: Bolding by the author to highlight key points.

Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1DYKLUR&ct=130206&st=sb

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IBM Many Eyes: Home Page

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/

An experiment brought to you by IBM Research and the IBM Cognos software group

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IBM Many Eyes: Visualizations

Showing 1-30 of 164,419

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/visualizations

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IBM Many Eyes: Data Sets

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/datasets

Showing 1-30 of 408,317

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IBM Many Eyes: People

https://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/login

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IBM Many Eyes: Comments

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/comments

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IBM Many Eyes: Example

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/visualizations/summer-and-winter-olympic-games-me

Many Eyes uses Java and Flash technology.

My Note: I did this but it kept crashing my Google Chrome Browser!

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IBM Many Eyes: Steps & Options

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/page/create_visualization.htmlhttp://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/page/Visualization_Options.html

Compare a set of valuesBar ChartBlock HistogramBubble Chart

Track rises and falls over timeLine GraphStack GraphStack Graph for Categories

See the parts of a wholePie ChartTreemapTreemap for Comparisons

Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental.

See relationships among data pointsScatterplotMatrix ChartNetwork Diagram

Analyze a textWord TreeTag CloudPhrase NetWord Cloud Generator

See the worldOttawa Neighborhood MapUS County MapWorld MapMassachusetts MapNew Jersey Map

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IBM Many Eyes: 2013 Beta Welcome

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/labs/manyeyes/

My Note: “Data Stories and Data Science ”

My Note: Internet Explorer will be fully supported later in the beta period.

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IBM Many Eyes: 2013 Beta Steps & Options

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/labs/manyeyes/#create

Compare a Set of ValuesWord TreeWord CloudPhrase Net

Track Rises and Falls Over TimeBar ChartBlock HistogramBubble ChartView in Context

See Parts of a WholeHeat MapPie ChartTree MapScatter plot

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IBM Many Eyes: 2013 Beta Step 1

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/labs/manyeyes/#create

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IBM Many Eyes: 2013 Beta Step 2

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/labs/manyeyes/#create

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IBM Many Eyes: 2013 Beta Step 2

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/labs/manyeyes/#create

Many Eyes uses Java and Flash technology.

My Note: This kept crashing my Google Chrome Browser!

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Guardian 2012 Summer Olympic Medals: Spotfire Client

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GuardianOlympicMedals-Spotfire

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Guardian 2012 Summer Olympic Medals: Spotfire Web Player

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GuardianOlympicMedals-Spotfire

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Some Conclusions and Recommendations

• Semantic Community Was Unable to Import An Excel File Into Many Eyes 2013 Beta and Create a Simple Graphic Without Crashing the Google Chrome Browser.

• Spotfire Provides Similar Features To IBM Many Eyes (Original and 2013 Beta), But the Author Finds Spotfire Much Easier and More Reliable to Use.

• MindTouch and Spotfire Are More Versatile Than IBM Many Eyes For Mashups.

• Semantic Community Will Continue to Use The Gartner BI Magic Quadrant Leader Tools and Their Sample Data Sets and to Recreate Visualizations and Dashboards.