Improving Analysis Process

Big Data @ Chalmers

Purpose

Visual data exploration

Data overview

Geospatial visualization

Approach

1. Find out what kind of tools that would be suitable.

Free

vs

Commercial

Application

vs

Library

Desktop

vs

Cloud

Approach

2. List some interesting tools and rank them.

Spotfire Desktop 7

Tableau Desktop 9.1

MicroStrategy Desktop 10

Approach

3. Install a selected tool at a workstation, try it out on real data and evaluate.

Spotfire Desktop 7

+ Great basic functionality for data exploration

+ Data connectivity options

+ Geovisualizations

- Advanced customized visualizations

- Community and documentation

- Scripting is non-intuitive

Spotfire Desktop 7

Questions?