Tag: Business

Visualizing data using mediums like graphs, charts, and diagrams allows businesses to make better sense of the massive amounts of information they receive. Rather than disseminating sheets of data in number form, visual depictions allow you to more quickly and intuitively convey ideas and concepts to your team. Stephen Brobst, CTO of Teradata, tells us: “Seventy percent of the sense receptors are in the eyeball. Nothing is as powerful as visualizing data.

Jane has a data problem and an overdue report. Will SQL save the day? Jane works as a business analyst for a large London bank. As she walks to the station on Monday morning, she’s thinking about last week’s unfinished work. She couldn’t get the data she needed from IT, so she could not deliver her report on a financial product’s non-performing assets. She absolutely must submit the report to her manager today; she’s already delayed it for more than a week.