This is a must watch video for all data fans, it includes a few cool data visualisation examples. David also talks about data being the new oil and tries to coin the new phrase of "data being the new soil" (i.e. insights and innovation spring from it), great idea I think but it comes across as a bit wanky. Anyway, awesome examples and great video!
(download)Broader data management - not simply database management - is required to keep pace with the escalation of untapped, unstructured web data. As the amount of this data approaches the petabyte level, new tools have been developed that allow your enterprise to expand upon current Business Intelligence capabilities to expose business patterns that have valuable strategic implications.Massive mashups - or combinations of data from diverse sources into a single integrated tool (e.g. Google Maps) - provide business users with fresh perspectives of their industry. Such perspectives are made possible through the integration of structured data through a common web browser. But how does one deal with mashing together multiple gigabytes and terabytes - even petabytes - of unstructured data?The IBM Emerging Internet Technologies group has evolved the key concepts from the mashups paradigm into a new tool code named: “Massive Mashups” (M2). But integrating petabytes of disparate data is more than just an added capability; it expands current Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities to expose business patterns that we don’t know we don’t know.
Are you and your team still spending more time compiling reports in Excel than actually analysing them and taking action? Would your company benefit from an automated dashboard solution that mashes up and visualises data from all your various channels including online, retail and call center?
Check out the screen shots of our sample multi-channel marketing dashboard below and you will get an idea how powerful single source reporting with data from multiple channels can be.
Email us at insights@datalicious.com if you would like to get access to our live sample dashboard below and we will email you the login details (and maybe a polite follow-up later on).
Please note: The data and reports are currently still hosted on a demo server which is also used for data crunching so load times might be a bit slower sometimes. In a live scenario the dashboards would be hosted on a dedicated server to guarantee optimal performance at all times.
Or check out our recent article on open source column based databases if your company still needs a high performance data warehouse solution to power its business intelligence platform.
