How to edit connection on existing dashboard or visualization

Scenario: You have built a dashboard on a development database connection and you need to migrate to a production server using production database. How do you change the connection on the dashboard charts and visualization? There are two ways to change/update connection settings. Method 1 1. Let say you created a connection handle mydb_dev and … Read more

Charting Engines vs Analytics Software vs Dashboard software

Every often we would get users asking us ‘How different is your dashboard software from XYZ Business Analytics?’ The XYZ spans across the entire Business Intelligence umbrella and often into the Website development and applicaton side as well. Some of the questions are like ‘How different is infocaptor dashboards from Tableau?” ‘How is it infocaptor … 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

Data Visualization : Who made money for the Government on the bailout money?

Here is a quick data analytics for the bailout money disbursement. Lot of the entities have already paid the amount back to the government with interest and the government has made profits! Government has also lost money on lot of other organizations/companies that failed to repay back.   [Click here to see large] The top … Read more

Thanksgiving Sales – shopping survey

Data source : https://nrf.com/ PDF used for the visualizations Analysing the survey results How Likely Are You Going To Shop On Thanksgiving Which Of The Following Days Do You Plan To Shop Thanksgiving Weekend? Did you shop on Thanksgiving Day last year?   Do You Plan To Shop Specifically For “Small Business Saturday” On Saturday, … Read more

Analysis and Data visualizations : Bed bugs, Y Combinator and Halloween

In this update we bring you different flavors of data analysis on what users have been publishing using our Data Visualizer 1. Y Combinator companies has more funding than the sum total of all remaining accelerators Does the above dinasaur image resemble the bar chart above? Check the complete analysis here 2. Number of local … Read more

Sending and receiving money across the world – remittances between countries

The world bank publishes lot of interesting data and one about we are discussing is the remiitances between countries Using the 2013 dataset, we come with the following visualizations. Aggregating all the sending remiitances in millions of USD, we see that United States is the top country for sending remittances acros the world Click on … Read more

Color and Pattern analysis on Flags of Countries – Simple visualization but interesting data

Flags are symbolic and have deep roots in the history of the country it represents. Ever wondered why certain countries have certain colors in their flags, why it has certain symbols and what are the different patterns. Recently, here at InfoCaptor we started a small research on the subject of flags. We wanted to answer … Read more