Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Visualization and Synthesis

1.
 
In the given chart it is clearly showed that the three suppliers has the highest revenue they are BMG, Sony music and WEA all of these have revenue of 2 million. The Virgins records also have very good revenue that falls between 1.2-2millions.The suppliers who had the least revenue was MGM Studios.
2.

The given pie chart indicates us that the Morristown city has the least price of books which was $33750.41 and which has the percentage contribution of 3.61%.The second least price of book that cities has are the Rutherford and Nutley with the percentage contribution of 4.17% only.

3.
 
The given line chart indicates us that the Action movie has maximum units available of about 840K and the second was the Alternative Movies having units of 820k.The least units available was in Rock movies of about 710K.
4.
 
The given vertical chart indicates that the march month has the least sale of about $318k,The second least was the during the February month which was $322k.And the third least was during the month of January  of $327k.
5.
The given horizontal bar chart indicates us that the cameras has the least cost which was only $1990256 and revenue of $2961622 and the item which has the least cost was the video equipment’s which has the cost of $2574578 and revenue of $3905428.

Dashboard


Q: What is a dashboard? What is the role of dashboards in business intelligence? How can dashboards help with Big Data? How are dashboards useful in business?

 

 A business insights dashboard is a graphical interface that indications the existing status of dimensions and key performance indicators for an enterprise.

A business intelligence dashboard is a data visualization tool that shows the present position of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for an organization. Dashboards merge and organize numbers, metrics and sometimes performance scorecards on a screen. They may be personalised for a specific role and show metrics battered for a single point of view. The main features of a BI dashboard product include a customized boundary and the capacity to attract actual data from several sources.

The business knowledge dashboard is often befuddled with the effecting scorecard. The principle distinction among these two is that a business knowledge dashboard is the dashboard of an auto, proves the position at a specific point. A scorecard shows improvement towards particular objectives. Dashboard and scorecard plans are increasingly focalizing.

 
Q: What enterprise and activity does you dataset represent? What is your dashboard’s mission statement? What are the five questions you have asked of your dataset? For each of the five questions, what are the attributes and metrics?

The given dataset represents the different retailer who supplies of books and it also shows the different items of categories supplied in various months including its price and revenue.

 The questions related to the dataset are as follows:

 Which supplier has most revenue?

Attribute: supplier

Metrics: Revenue

 In which city the price of books was less?

Attribute: City

Metrics: unit Price

 
In which category the maximum units were available?

Attribute: Item Category

Metrics: Units available

 

In which month the least units were sold?

Attribute: Month

Metrics: Units sold

 

Which item has the least cost?

Attribute: Item Category

Metrics: Cost