Visual Analytics

Is visual analytics the final victory of form over content? For sure the business world has fallen in love with pretty graphics and reassuring dashboards, although I personally tire of people posting their latest chart showing the distribution of sharks around the globe, or net migration of people, as if…

There is a growing realization that asking business users to do their own analytics may not be a particularly productive thing to do. On the one hand we are seduced by attractive graphs and charts that use designer color schemes, but on the other hand people do have other things…