The document discusses a webinar on data discovery and visualization hosted by The Briefing Room, with a presentation from Actuate on tips for effective data visualization and examples of Actuate's visualization capabilities. The webinar includes an introduction of Actuate and their speaker Jason Goodyear, followed by Jason's presentation on best practices and examples of data visualizations using Actuate's software.
4. Mission
! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software,
good and bad
! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s innovative
technologies
! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy
analysts
! Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get
answers!
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5. Topics
This month: DATA DISCOVERY & VISUALIZATION
December: INNOVATORS
2014 Editorial Calendar at
www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room
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6. Data Discovery & Visualization
! Today’s business challenges call for dynamic, interactive
and multi-dimensional visualizations
! Different types of analysis require different types of
visualization tools and techniques
! Not all people consume and digest data in the same way;
hence, data visualization and discovery products need to
cater for diversity
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7. Analyst: John O’Brien
John O’Brien is
Founder and CEO of
Radiant Advisors
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8. Actuate
! Actuate is a software company whose suite of products
include solutions for business intelligence, information
applications, operational and analytic dashboards, data
mining and predictive analytics
! Actuate is the founder of the Eclipse BIRT open source
project, a development environment for data visualizations
! Visualizations developed and deployed using BIRT can be
shared and embedded
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9. Guest: Jason Goodyear
Jason Goodyear has over 15 years of
experience in data delivery
applications. He has been with Actuate
for over 5 years in a technical sales
position. Prior to joining Actuate, Jason
was involved in the delivery of data
applications in a variety of roles
including: senior programmer, technical
project lead, application architect,
project manager and business analyst.
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