Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study ABSTRACT Organizations rely on data analysts to model customer engagement, streamline operations, improve production, inform business decisions, and combat fraud. Numerous analysis and visualization advanced tools available for analysts to work, but there are little research goes on how analysis happens in companies. To better understand the enterprise analysts’ ecosystem, we conducted semi structured interviews with 35 data analysts from 25 organizations. Based on our interview data, we characterize the process of industrial data analysis and document how organizational features of an enterprise impact it. We describe recurring pain points, outstanding challenges, and barriers to adoption for visual analytic tools. INTRODUCTION: The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 35 analysts from various sectors. They asked analysts to walk them through the typical tasks they perform, the tools analysts use, the challenges they encounter, and the organizational context in which analysis takes place. In this paper, we present the results and analysis of these interviews. The respondents are well-described by three archetypes. We find that these archetypes vary widely in programming proficiency, reliance on Information technology (IT) staff and diversity of tasks, and vary less in statistical proficiency. We describe how collaboration takes place between analysts. We find that analysts seldom share
If we take an example of retail industry dashboards can be beneficial in analyzing the customers’s buying behaviour and analyzing the market situations. Retailers who use data to drive decisions run more efficient businesses and are more change-ready than others. Customized Dashboards offers solutions that can help retail industry visualize the market situation,increase customer satisfaction, reduce
A database is the outcome of contribution and accumulation of knowledge. And the utilization of database also requires the collaboration of works and knowledge of analytic skills and business management. From data to valuable information, it is a process of the exchange of ideas, a journey of seeking the meaning in relationships, and a mixture of wisdom, which is fulfilled by a group of business analysis professionals. The strong desire of being a business analytics brings me to the front door of Rady School of
According to Berson and Dubov (2011), there are four typical categories of drivers that explain the need for data management: Business Development, Sales and Marketing; Customer Service; Risk, Privacy, Compliance and Control; and Operational
Importantly, we will create visual representations of the data/insights to enhance interest and interactivity. These will result in the creation of such artifacts as:
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A Data Model is the practice of developing a model that defines all the level entities of an enterprise at a logical level, how they relate to one another, their life cycles, the services and systems that act upon it, and the places of the entity’s application in the enterprise. An Enterprise Data Model (EDM) also defines each entity’s attributes and forms the ground of a common language in an enterprise (Rob, Coronel, & Crocke, 2008). This paper develops and illustrates a comprehensive enterprise data model for a particular group of choice in Wild Wood Apartments. The department of interest in the organization is the Administration Department and in particular the managerial level that manages the apartments. The paper further articulates the rules of operation within the department to allow for an application model. Finally, there is rule reflection, i.e. assessing the extent to which the data model reflects on the operating rules of the organization.
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Although the advanced analytics professionals could pull the data together in one consolidated view via Tableau for the executive team, the underlying data did not lend itself to a larger deployment of Tableau. Business users that were outside of the IT and analytics profession were not prepared for the level of complexity involved in self-service analysis.
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Now how some of this analyst is determining all of this? The way analyst are determine organizations use different statistics and one of them are descriptive statistics this is used to describe the data of basic features in a study. This describes what is going on in the data and is used to present quantitative descriptions in a manageable from (M.K. William, 2006). For example take college students and there is two ways this can happen, take college students and go by the year they are in college, listing the number or percent of males and females. Then the raw scores are grouped into categories according to ranges of values. For example the GPA according to the letter grade range or group income into four or five ranges of income values (M.K. William, 2006). Another statistics is determined is by using inferential statistics this is used when organizations are trying to reach conclusions that extend beyond the immediate data alone (M.K. William, 2006). This also concentrates on experimental and quasi-experimental research that designs or in a program outcome evaluation (M.K. William, 2006). For example use inferential statistics to help make judgments of the probability which an observed difference between
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