Visualizing Resources

how we did it

Created by Aixbel Martinez / @aixbel

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September, 2015

Data Visualization

"Real World" Data Visualization

Some day at Work..

Create a dashboard that allowed us to Visualize our Resources by product

What to do?

Expectation

Reality

I decided to break the gap

How to do it?

1. Understand what they were really asking for

1. Understand what they were really asking for

Create a dashboard that allowed us to Visualize our Resources by mission

@Starfleet Academy, from Star Trek

2. Simplify the problem

  1. Focus first on the areas that you know. Human Resources

  2. Divide the problem, answer one question at the time


Who much effort(people) was placed on the mission to get to Klingon to capture Khan
[Star Trek Into Darkness]

3. Define scope of Dashboard

  1. What information do I have available?

3. Define scope of Dashboard

  1. What portion of the information it's really relevant?

3. Define scope of Dashboard

  1. How the relevant information can be represented graphically

3. Define scope of Dashboard

Mockup

4. Choose how to implement it

5. Optimize Design

5. Optimize Design

User Interface

5. Optimize Design

Engine

5. Optimize Design

Database

5. Optimize Design

Couple of version later

Demo

What's Next

Lesson Learned

  • Backward Approach, starting from what do you expect from it

  • Understand well the problem before start developing the solution

  • Divide and conquer thinking, for complex problems divide them in smaller and tackle them alone

I am Aixbel Martinez / @aixbel

Thank you!

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