Data Visualization tool is a Presentation Tool

(this is a repost from my other Data Visualization blog: http://tableau7.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/tableau-as-container/ )

Often I used small Tableau (or Spotfire or Qlikview) workbooks instead of PowerPoint, which are proving at least 2 concepts:

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  Good Data Visualization tool can be used as the Web or Desktop Container for Multiple Data Visualizations (it can be used to build a hierarchical Container Structures with more then 3 levels; currently 3: Container-Workbooks-Views)

  
  


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  It can be used as the replacement for PowerPoint; in example below I embedded into this Container 2 Tableau Workbooks, one Google-based Data Visualization, 3 image-based Slides and Textual Slide: http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/TableauInsteadOfPowerPoint/1-Introduction

  
  


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  Tableau (or Spotfire or Qlikview) is better then PowerPoint for Presentations and Slides

  
  


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  Tableau (or Spotfire or Qlikview) is the Desktop and the Web Container for Web Pages, Slides, Images, Texts

  
  


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  Good Visualization Tool can be a Container for other Data Visualizations

  
  


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  Sample Tableau Presentation above contains the Introductory Textual Slide

  
  


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  Sample Tableau Presentation above  contains a few Tableau Visualization:This Tableau Presentation contains a Web Page with the Google-based Motion Chart Demo

  
  
  
  
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     The Drill-down Demo

     
     
  
  
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     The Motion Chart Demo ( 6 dimensions: X,Y, Shape, Color, Size, Motion in Time)

     
     
  
  
  
  


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  This Tableau Presentation contains a few Image-based Slides:

  
  
  
  
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     The Quick Description of Origins and Evolution of Software and Tools used for Data Visualizations during last 30+ years

     
     
  
  
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     The Description of Multi-level Projection from Multidimensional Data Cloud to Datasets, Multidimensional Cubes and to Chart

     
     
  
  
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     The Description of 6 stages of Software Development Life Cycle for Data Visualizations

     
     
  
  
  
  

Data Science and Data Visualization

I am planning for a while to respond on Donald Farmer's comments on my recent blog post about Power View.

But instead I found myself thinking about relationship between Data Science and Data Visualization and yesterday Forbes (thanks to Dan Woods) published Donald's "explanation" about "What is a Data Scientist" and it forced me to write about it here before anything else.

Data Science was under radar until 2001, when various people started to use this term as an unifying umbrella for the set of predictive analytics algorithme, statistical methods, data mining technologies etc. like anomaly and trend detection, dependency and correlation modeling, clustering, classification, regression and summarization, pattern discovery etc.

Spotfire 4.5 is announced

TIBCO said Spotfire 4.5 will be available later this month (May 2012).

Among news and additions to Spotfire: it will include ADS connector to Hadoop, integration with SAS, Mathworks and Attivio engines and new deployment kit for iPad.