Challenging Everything We Know About Type 2 Diabetes Management, with Data
Diabetes is a disease of the unengaged. So, how do you influence the behavior of 100 million Americans(1) who are living with or are in the first stages of diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease of the unengaged. So, how do you influence the behavior of 100 million Americans(1) who are living with or are in the first stages of diabetes?
In a previous article, Conquering Analytics: Collection, Validation, Enhancement, Accessibility, I spoke about how to handle data in a complex, general, analytics system. In this article, I am going to assume that you have read my previous article and in a little more specific of a use case, I will talk a bit about taking […]
In the SaaS world, analytics powers existing development and should determine the next steps in the path for the future of products and services. So if I asked the question, how do you define analytics? User details and behavior? Application performance? Reporting? The answer shouldn’t be complicated. When I think of answering that question, I […]
What makes for a good visualization? There are a number of components that are necessary for a visualization to be valuable. Just having a line (series item) represent some segment of data (y-axis) over time (x-axis) isn’t enough. For a data visualization to be relevant you need two main things, context and reference. The more […]
Dashboard development has become novel in the last 5 years. Everyone has a dashboard that is branded “easy”, “intuitive” or “custom”. I have interactions with clients and the number one question I get is “What will this do for ME?” It got me thinking. In today’s data-centric society, we tend to focus our efforts around […]
If you build data visualizations you have run into the issues of useless words destroying the value of your display. You should find a way to implement these “stopwords” into your data streams. Here is a collection of stopword lists in many languages. http://www.ranks.nl/stopwords
If you use the internet, you know that everything you do is tracked. Everything from personal interactions with your friends and family, items you purchase, items you look at while thinking about purchasing, your news and information preferences, everything. This is all being done in preparation for a global conversion from traditional sales and marketing […]
If you are working, in any capacity, chances are you see and use data visualizations everyday. There is so much data moving around, you have to find a way to make sense of it all. Very few users can make sense of raw data and even fewer can see patterns in that. Good visualization layers […]