How do you get Rich and successful ?

Data source: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/ There are so many belief systems and how a person is raised determines what the person believes in. Here are some top reasons for success as per the Rich, poor and middle class. What do Poor people think are the top three reasons for success? Connections to the right people Cunning and … Read more

Data Visualization of Pittsburgh’s Municipal Building Energy Usage

Photo by Dan Chmill, via Flickr creative commons. Energy Dashboard metrics for Pittsburgh Municipal buildings Today we get our hands busy analysing data from Pittsburgh Open data. Few months ago we did Chicago wifi usage visualization and this is our first attempt analysing our own city data. The very first thing we notice is that … Read more

5 Benefits of Dashboards in the Marketing Industry

What’s the first thing you look at when you flip on your computer screen in the morning? What’s the item you peek at on your phone even when your dinner partner wishes you’d leave work behind for the evening? For most people that addictive checking-tendency applies to their emails, but the truly business-savvy marketers are … Read more

Do you spend too much time building reports with Google Analytics data?

How to streamline dashboard reporting with Google Analytics? There are lot of ways you can optimize your reporting with Google Analytics and I would like to bring your attention to a very powerful solution as described below. Our solution is not an Excel plugin but it is a packaged Datawarehouse. Let me assure and explain … Read more

What is the true benefit of Dashboards or Business Intelligence software?

In fact, the question should be “What should be the true benefit of Dashboards or Business Intelligence software? ” Whether you are using dashboard in excel, Dashboards in Microsoft Access, Quickbooks, business objects, Salesforce or big ERP like Oracle EBS or SAP, there are numerous tangible benefits of using InfoCaptor as your primary BI and … Read more

Presidents of USA and their Birth Signs – Sankey Visualization

Wikipedia has a great dataset with regards to all the presidents of USA, their birth dates, birth States and birth signs (sun sign) In this analysis, we will visualize the relation between the Age at Presidency, State of Birth and birth sign. Sankey diagrams are extremely powerful at expressing flow and relationships. In the following … Read more

Impact of sports in movies : Simple Data visualization Analysis – Basketball, Football, Hockey, Lacrosse, Miscellaneous sports

This http://www.the-numbers.com/keywords/ website contains lot of statistics related to movies and one important piece of juicy data is that they have categorized the movie listings by keywords. Using this list we try to analyze the popularity of sports in movies. 1. How has the featuring of sports as backdrop or prominent theme increased over the … Read more

Don’t Expect A Large Salary Increase If You Didn’t Go To College

What is the importance of education and getting formal degree? As per US Census data, following chart illustrates that if you have less than “college degree” then the jumps in your salary is very less as you progress in your age Notice the big jump in median salary with better than college degrees. This is … Read more