On the healthcare applications team, we have developed standard Measure Factory applications for visualizing, analyzing, and understanding data. In...
Healthcare Applications Dashboards: Patterns for Exposing Data
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5 Ways to Get More Out of Data Visualization
By definition, data visualization is about showing information in a visual format. People often get overwhelmed when they see numbers on a...
Data Analytics and the Fight Against COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent shockwaves through the medical community by putting extreme stress on the information technology capabilities of...
Practical Analysis: The Next Chapter
The “Practical Analysis” blog series is dedicated to answering the questions: “So what is analysis anyway?” and “How can I apply it in my world?”...
Exploratory Data Analysis Part 2: Helping You Make Better Decisions
In my first post on exploratory data analysis (EDA), I discussed why it’s important to get a “sense” for the data you’re working with before...
Practical Analysis: Understanding Visualization Concepts
We humans like pictures. We’re wired to process images quickly and effectively. The evolution of those capabilities over thousands of years has...
How Exploratory Data Analysis Helps You Generate Meaningful Insights
Too much data and not enough useful information is one of the great paradoxes of the era of large scale, pervasive computing. Improving that balance...
Practical Analysis – The Foundation of Analytics Knowledge
The original idea for the “Practical Analysis” blog series came from a seemingly simple question: “What is analysis?” Answering that question took...
How to Harness the Power of Pictures in Analytics
As an analyst, you can perform the most sophisticated analysis and draw the most compelling conclusions, but without a way to share these with...
How to Separate Noise from Meaning in Big Data
When we rely on data to make decisions, how do we tell what is a meaningful signal and what is merely noise? Data is neither, in and of itself, as...
In Baseball and in Business: “Adapt or Die”
November 1, 2017, may someday be remembered as the date that analytics irrevocably took over baseball. That’s when the Houston Astros won the World...
Practical Analysis: Our Statistical Toolbox
In Part I of my Practical Analysis series on analysis and statistics, I talked about statistical concepts. Understanding the concepts is essential,...
Practical Analysis: How Statistics Help Us See the “Gray”
Where do statistics fit into the world of analysis? Well, analysis allows us to make objective arguments to discover the truth based on actual...
Practical Analysis: Making Analysis Accessible to Everyone
In the first post of the “Practical Analysis” blog series, I suggested that numeracy will become an increasingly essential skill set in the 21st...
Numeracy: Analytical Skills for the 21st Century
If you’re involved in any way with analyzing information, you undoubtedly are acquainted with the term “big data” by now. There is certainly a...