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Ebook: Data Visualization Tools For Users (English)
Ebook: Data Visualization Tools For Users (English)
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Tools for
data visualization
toolbox
01. TOOLBOX
TOOLS AND
LANGUAGES
SQL
pyODBC
Sqlite
mxODBC
SQlite3
SQLAlchemy
RSQlite
pandas
Toad
data.table
Tora
XML
RapidMiner Jsonlite
The following is intended to
be a basic guide, obviously
not exhaustive, of some useful
resources available for each of
the facets performed by these
professionals.
Knime
Pentaho
RODBC
RJDBC
json
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Data management
Part of the work of the data scientist it to capture,
clean-up and store information in a format suitable
for its processing and analysis.
The most usual scenario is to access a copy of the
data source for a one-time or periodic capture.
You will need to know SQL to access the data
stored in relational databases. Each database has a
console to execute SQL queries, even though most
01. TOOLBOX
01. TOOLBOX
01. TOOLBOX
Data analysis
Even though the Business Intelligence, Data
Warehousing and Machine Learning fields are part
of Data Science, the latter is the one which
requires a greater number of specific utilities.
Hence, our toolbox will need to include R y
Python, the programming language most widely
used in machine learning.
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If we need to change any R package we will need C++ and some utilities that allow us to re-generate them:
Rtools, an environment for creating packages in R under Windows, and devtools, which facilitates all
processes related to development.
There are also some general purpose tools that will make our life easier in R:
01. TOOLBOX
Distributed environments deserve a special mention. If we have dealt with data from a large institution or
company, we will probably have experience working with the so-called Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop is a
distributed file system (HDFS) equipped with algorithms (MapReduce) that allows to perform information
processing in parallel.
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01. TOOLBOX
Visualization
Finally, a brief reference to the
presentation of results.
The most popular tools for R are
clearly lattice y ggplot2,
and Matplotlib for Python. But if we
need professional presentations
embedded in web environments the
best choice is certainly D3.js.
Among the integrated Business
Intelligence environments with a clear
approach to presentations we should
highlight the well known Tableau, and
as alternatives for graphical
exploration of data, Birst and Necto.
We present you some of the best data visualization tools that you
can use in your business to take full advantage of the large
amount of information created every day in the digital world.
Tableau Public
iCharts
Smart Data Report
CartoDB
This is an open source service directed to any user,
regardless his technical level, with a friendly
interface. It allows to create a variety of interactive
maps, choosing from a catalog of options (which
includes Google Maps) or adding your own
customized maps.
The most interesting feature of this tool is that it lets
you access Twitters data to see how users react to
a brand, a particular marketing campaign or event.
We can see a good example of this on the map
tracking tweets that was created last year with the
launch of Beyoncs latest album. It shows clearly
the places where the release had more impact. This
is a great source of visual information for marketing
professionals and businesses.
It should also be highlighted that it has an active
group of developers who provide extensive
Tableau Public
With Tableau Public you can create easily
interactive maps, bar and pie charts, etc. One of its
advantages is that, like Google Fusion Tables, you
can import tables from Excel to facilitate your work.
In a matter of minutes you can generate an
interactive graphic, embed it in your website and
share it. For example, the news portal Global
Post created with it a series of charts about the best
countries to do business in Africa.
In the recently released 8.2 version we can also find
the new OpenStreetMap tool, which allows to
produce very detailed maps from local data such as
cafes or shops. Tableau Public is a free tool,
although it also has a premium version.
iCharts
You can get started in the world of data
visualization with the service offered by iCharts,
which has a free version (Basic) and two premium
options (Platinum and Enterprise). With this tool you
can create visualizations in just a few steps,
exporting Excel and Google Drive documents or
adding data manually.
Through this tool it is possible to share your
graphics with your collaborators privately, besides
03. WEBINARS
Mapping data
CartoDB explains how to convert location data into knowledge for your business. In this tutorial you can learn
how to analyze, visualize and build data apps using the CartoDB tool.
03. WEBINARS
Machine Learning
Now summer's round the corner, Andrs Gonzlez, solutions manager for Big Data and Data Prediction at
Clever Task, shows us how to make forecasts from data in a very specific area: the tourist sector.
03. WEBINARS
Geospatial apps
And if you want to learn to create apps and geospatial data, you can't miss this tutorial also by CartoDB
explaining how you can make the most of an API in this case the one opened by BBVA for the
InnovaChallenge competition to create apps and visualizations.
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