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My Network World op-ed: business benefits of data visualization
By WDavidStephenson | February 12, 2008
Ooops! Got so caught up in politics and family stuff that I didn’t realize my op-ed on the business benefits of data visualization ran last week in Network World’s online edition.
As the title (”Data visualization: the under-appreciated Web 2.0 tool”) suggests with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer, I believe data visualization is both a tremendously important tool and tremendously under-appreciated. It deserves more consideration, alongside wikis, blogs, tags etc. as ways for corporations and government agencies alike to encourage collaboration, improve policy discusssions, and evaluate programs.
The op-ed grew out of a comment to Jon Udell by the DC officials responsible for establishing its Citywide Data Warehouse, the more than 150 real-time data streams the city releases on a real-time basis. The officials said they’d used the same data streams internally to encourage collaboration and improve program collaboration.
That got me thinking. CONTINUED….
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