Data visualisation for decision support Better decisions, by design

Dr Mischa Weiss-Lijn @mweissli @RMA_consulting

Data visualisation 1.  Why?

2.  Who for?

3.  The different flavours?

RMA 1.  A little bit us…

2.  …and the data visualisation work we’ve done

Encouraging better decision making across an organisation Democratising data

Democratising data in an organisation

You can make data-driven decision making the norm for people across organisations if you enable them to use vision to think, by harnessing the data they need with well designed visualisations

Interactive Data Visualisation empowers people to make better decisions by enabling them to use Vision to think

1000s of data points at a glance Get answers in context See the big picture, the patterns Compare datasets Spot outliers Interactively focus & transform

Visualisation shifts mental processing

Bertin 2010, “Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps”

Visual tools can simplify, improve and quicken decision making

Better decisions Interactive visualisations empower people to get to the big picture

Deeper understanding

But who for?

A typology of data users Data scientists Data junkies

Data neutrals Dataphobes

Data scientists

-  Emerging and rare discipline

-  Expertise in advanced analysis of

complex datasets

-  Diverse skills in statistics databases

and development

-  Use specialist tools and frameworks

such as R, Python and Hadoop.

Data junkies

-  Happy with numbers

-  Spend time building complex

spreadsheets

-  Want to drive their decisions using data,

but often don’t have the time and tools

to put ambitions into practice.

Data neutrals

-  Majority in most organisations

-  Will work with numbers when needed

-  Put off by tables of numbers

-  Don’t have skills or confidence to

analyse data.

Data phobes

-  Scared by numbers

-  Lack the urge, skills or confidence, to

manipulate and analyse.

A typology of data users Data scientists Data junkies

Data neutrals Dataphobes

From information art to workhorse visualisation tools

Flavours of visualisation

Information Art

Information Graphics

Data Graphics

Narrative Visualisations

Workhorse Visualisations

A loose classification for visualisation

Engaging Passive

Static/Dynamic

Illustrative Passive

Static

Accurate Passive

Static / dynamic

Illustrative Interactive

Static/Dynamic

Accurate Interactive Dynamic

56 days worth of foodA detailed study of

personal food consumption from

February 1st to March

31st, 2010. The first poster deals with the food I eat the most ranked by quantity

eaten versus calorie content of each food.

Information art

David McCandles

Information graphics

David McCandles

Data graphics

Narrative visualisations

Workhorse visualisations

RMA Consulting A little bit about us

RMA specialises in creating powerful and smart enterprise solutions Not here today, gone tomorrow campaign work

Energy Weather monitoring

Finance Trading and banking tools

Telecoms Billing tools

Defence Mission planning

Health A&E triage & management

Managed Services HR Onboarding

Smart systems for decision makers Selected case studies

Award winning multi-asset single dealer platform UBS: Neo

Award winning multi-asset single dealer platform UBS: Neo

UBS Neo is an entirely new approach to client engagement in investment banking. It is a platform that unifies and delivers the very best of UBS; its people, content, research, trading ideas, pricing and execution capabilities. It was developed to provide the firm’s clients with a seamless, fully integrated cross-asset and cross-functional experience.

Powerful, data-driven tool for catastrophe modelling in the London market vR: Visualising Risks

We worked with key players in the London Insurance Market to develop the vR product concept. It vR allows analysts to rapidly understand portfolio risk, and create compelling visualisations that efficiently communicates the big picture to senior management.

Powerful, data-driven tool for catastrophe modelling in the London market vR: Visualising Risks

Create. Explore and analyse your data, by creating specialised maps and charts using your standard data sources. Capture. Extract key visualisations for easy insertion into standard, PowerPoint or Excel, board reports. Demonstrate. Click through to live, interactive, visualisations to make your point and conclusively answer questions.

Powerful, data-driven tool for catastrophe modelling in the London market vR: Visualising Risks

NHS: Kids Sleep Doctor Help for parents of children with sleep disorders

Help for parents of children with sleep disorders Evelina: Kids Sleep Doctor

Built using RMA’s own finger-painting method of data capture, Kids Sleep Dr allows parents simply to glide their finger over the diary to quickly enter in their child’s sleep patterns. Kids Sleep Doctor intelligently offers intelligent personalised tips, that have been distilled from years of research, clinical experience, and feedback from the hundreds of parents who frequent the Evelina London Children's Sleep Medicine Department every year - the UK’s busiest sleep clinic.

Grant Thornton: Data vis consulting Visual thinking for an analytical consultancy Try it on: bit.ly/1GHpOZh

RMA LABS: Election simulator Visualising possible futures Try it on: bit.ly/1GvQOWk

RMA LABS: Tweather All in a Twitter over the Weather Try it on: bit.ly/1PXJKZf

And...yes, we are recruiting!

rma-consulting.com/careers/

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