As a business owner or a manager, finding the best ways to share, simple to complex data and concepts to shareholders, customer, clients or even with management or employees can be a challenge.
While some people can easily work with numbers, most people find that a visual representation of the data is easier to grasp, understand and remember. Through the use of data visualization software, any business can convert data points into meaningful and highly visual opportunities to easily share even complicated concepts and information.
Graphing
While possible with many different types of programs, data visualization software offers a greater range of specialized types of graphs that can be used to not only plot specific data points on the graph but also to reflect trends over time.
With different types of graphing completed automatically by the software system, there is a greater emphasis on the actual data rather than just selecting key data points and plotting them. This provides a more realistic look at the information without bogging down in details.
Charts
Charts are another form of data representation that can be very helpful in presenting information at a granular level or in more of a wide brush stroke approach.
Charts are also very effective at comparing similar or even dissimilar but related issues, such as store size and sales, staffing and sales or marketing campaigns and customer profiles. With quality data visualization software, it is easy to choose the correct approach to displaying data that makes sense and is most appropriate for the data set.
Finally, it will be critical to use software that allows you to customize graphs, charts, diagrams from actual real-time data. This is a powerful option to be able to provide current, timely and specialized information literally at the click of a mouse.