BIG Call - April 2012

This talk discusses the broad design considerations necessary for effective visualizations.

Attendees will learn what’s required for a visualization to be successful, gain insight for critically evaluating visualizations they encounter, and come away with new ways to think about the visualization design process.

To be effective, a visualization must have:
Purpose
Content
Structure
Formatting

This talk will define these four pillars, reveal why they must be selected in this order, and discuss the importance and impact each has on your visualization.

The Value of Visualization will explore the ways in which companies are using infographics and data visualization to inform and entertain their audiences. The creation of this visual content is enabling communication in a way that is at once engaging and simple to understand. We will look at why the visualization of information is so effective and how to best use it to achieve your objectives.

Data visualization is not new – most modern web services from Mixpanel to Marketo to Mint include tools that work well for answering typical questions about specific data sets. Things get more interesting when you start asking more difficult questions, or trying to understand the relationship between data from internal marketing and business data, for example. Register for this presentation to learn about the analysis and visualization tradeoffs between tools like Excel, Tableau, Statwing, and R, and what to expect once you've picked one of those tools. Find out what you need to ask and answer bigger questions.

Welcome to CA Clarity 13.2! In this webcast, CA Technologies product management will provide an overview of the marquee features that have been delivered in the latest releases of CA Clarity™ PPM. These enhancements include the new portfolio management module, investment capitalization, financially-enabled roles, new capacity planning portlets, configurable OBS, new reporting and UI improvements, as well as improvements to CA Clarity™ Agile.

Insightful data visualization can change minds by revealing hidden data stories. Some notables in the field are asking harder questions, and enabling social change by using their data skills. Join other data professionals from around the globe to be inspired and challenged by experts Kim Rees, Javier de la Torre, and Benjamin Wiederkehr as they share their passion for meaningful data design.

Moderator: Jeffrey Kelly, Big Data Analyst, Wikibon

Kim Rees, Head of Information Design, Periscopic
Javier de la Torre, CEO and co-founder of Vizzuality
Benjamin Wiederkehr, Director, Interactive Things

Join us for an exclusive event to learn how Oracle’s best-in-class supply chain planning solutions enable companies to improve supply chain efficiency, streamline and optimise maintenance operations by proactively managing supply chain events.

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Doug Turner, CEO of Mantis Technology Group, talks about how his team built Pulse Analytics, a sentiment analysis solution using text analytics tool running on SAP HANA One. Hear how his team strengthened the capabilities of this solution while simplifying their data architecture by replacing 20 servers with only 1 SAP HANA One instance.

Doug Turner, CEO of Mantis Technology Group, talks about how his team built Pulse Analytics, a sentiment analysis solution using text analytics tool running on SAP HANA One. Hear how his team strengthened the capabilities of this solution while simplifying their data architecture by replacing 20 servers with only 1 SAP HANA One instance.

After implementing RFID, Macy’s has reduced its inventory accuracy deterioration to 3%-5% from 30%. American Apparel has cut the time it take associates to count items on the sales floor to 2 hours from 6 hours. “This is technology that has proven effective in our testing, and we believe now is the right time to roll out RFID aggressively," said Tom Cole, Chief Administrative Officer of Macy's, Inc. In this session, industry experts will discuss the fact that 2013 could be the year of the perfect storm of RFID implementations: technology costs have dropped significantly; and more companies are proving that RFID creates inventory efficiencies, improves loss prevention and saves money.

Big data has the potential to provide an incredible amount of insight into your business, infrastructure and customer behavior. But the issue is: how do you convince your CIO/CFO to fund a big data project? Are you sure it's worth the hype? What strategies should you employ to speak to your executives?

Join this panel of experts as they discuss all of these issues and more to convince your executive a big data project is worth the hype.