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QUIZ: Can You Spot the Problem With These Data Visualizations?

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With the recent election, people are interacting with data visualizations more than they normally would. And unless you’re a business analyst, you may not realize what separates a good visualization from a bad one.

Actually, some business analysts could use a crash course in effective data visualization as well. Thousands of people, every day, are forced to interact with misleading, ugly, or generally unusable data visualizations in their day-to-day activities. Without a true self-service business intelligence platform like Izenda, your users may be at the mercy of the business analysts that develop reports and dashboards on their behalf.

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Data Visualization Software from Izenda

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Gone are the days of “gut-decisions.” In business, it’s all about data. But reporting on and making sense of massive amounts of enterprise data is a challenge without the right Business Intelligence and Data Visualization software.

Here are 7 things you should know about BI and data visualization software before you choose the best platform for your business use case. Learn more about the different kinds of tools for Big Data, small data, and everything in-between, as well as the benefits they provide to businesses.

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Data Visualization: The Functional Art of Business

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Data-driven decisions are dominating the business world, but making sense of massive amounts of data can still be a challenge without the right tools.

Data visualization refers to the presentation of data in a graphical or pictorial format. Presenting data in this way can enable decision-makers to see a visual representation of data and digest complicated concepts more easily, allowing data to be used as productively as possible.

Find out the unique advantages of digestible data visualization and how it can enhance insights and provide more information than standard analysis. Read More

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How to Identify KPIs Worth Monitoring

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Looking at something like a sheet of earnings figures for the past two years can be hard to sum up. Turning that data into a graph of month-over-month earnings growth suddenly paints a picture of a company that’s on the move. Or, that same data can be cross-compared to the number of clients the company currently has, revealing that revenues-per-client have actually gone down. Read More

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Embedded Maps Give Your Users More Data Insights

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You know those metrics you’ve been following? Sometimes a map offers the best opportunity to understand them. Izenda comes with Highchart’s Highmaps fully integrated and ready to use, part of the extensible library of powerful visualizations available in our platform. It gives you high-level and regional geographic breakdowns of every country, as well as state, province, and county (or parish) breakdowns within the United States and Canada. You also get the latitude and longitude coordinates for countries, regions, counties, cities, and postal codes.

In addition to Highmaps, Izenda allows you to leverage Google Maps as well with a Google API key. Read More