the right time for right decisions
Right-time is defined by your
business processes, not by
technology. Right-time might be
within an hour, within a minute
or within a day, depending on
what you’re doing.
vISUALISATION MAKES INTERPRETING LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA EASIER
The table shows only 50 rows x 9 columns out of 80,000 rows of
Price and market penetration of consumer electronics over the past 50 years
data. The scatterplot shows 80,000 points with 5 attributes (x position,
Sources: Consumer Electronics Association, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
y position, height, size, color) – more than one hundred times what is
CD player data not available for 2006 and 2007.
visible in the table. Patterns invisible in the table are immediately
obvious in the scatterplot.
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