by Dr. Jane Fitzgerald | Oct 19, 2020 | Data Science, Information Technology
Why is Storytelling Essential in Business Intelligence?
For Business Intelligence, there is more beyond just portraying data. Expressing what data stands for is crucial since it is something that impacts every area of our lives daily.
Of course, it has become more vital for business organizations to know how to manage and effectively use larger data sources. However, obtaining the inherent benefits is also crucial, through data exploitation by way of storytelling.
Why tell stories in business?
Storytelling is the best way businesses can improve Business Intelligence (BI) visual Analytical tools such as
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Dashboards. Storytelling helps to interpret and explain the components (e.g., tables or graphs) of such visualization tools.
Nothing moves people better than stories. They do not only inform listeners but also inspire positive actions. Professionally constructed data stories help turn the primary data, the dispersion diagram, and the bar diagrams into compelling, actionable messages.
Like Steve Job aptly put it, “the most powerful person in the entire world is none but the storyteller.”
Data scientists and the people responsible for managing data may find their data results obvious, but what about their target audience? Businesses can close that wide gap in knowledge and employ analytical logic to guide their audience to align more with the company’s aims and objectives.
Let’s get one thing straight! Data storytelling is not the easiest of tasks. However, it is one thing business management teams cannot ignore. Businesses’ ability to tell stories with their data is now a necessary analytical skill in business best practice.
What are the requirements for effective data storytelling projects?
The basic requirements you need to make your business intelligence storytelling a successful project include tools like Microsoft Power Business Intelligence tool as a benchmark for data storytelling experience in the following order ;
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Flexible Transition
It is not easy to export visualizations from one given source to another to create a great BI story. The process does not only take time, but the analytical tools used for exploration and creation of data visualizations are different from those used to create BI stories. The tools’ differences also reduce the chances of embedding the annotations or metadata generated during the analysis.
For creators to export it, the storytelling setting comprises the metadata. Then analysis instantly converted under fluid and integrated processes to reduce the time and effort needed, which is what Microsoft Power BI guarantees.
Integration
BI story creators must have the right tools that help in combining all the necessary materials to produce their story. These materials include interactive visualizations, BI reports, and smart ways of indicating the story’s structure, a sequence in story presentation, highlighting capabilities, and more. Microsoft Power BI in MS PowerPoint embedded these requirements.
Focusing tools
These tools help achieve visual narrating, focusing on drawing attention towards particular visualization data, such as annotating, coloring, highlighting, and zooming (in and out). With Microsoft Power BI, you have full customization for compelling storytelling.
Interactive visualization
MS Power BI, you can achieve efficient visualization in the narrations that you shared. It also gives you full control regarding what pages can be viewed by users taking part in the report sharing process.
Reusing similar story structure
While BI data and report changes from one analysis to the other, the stories’ structure remains virtually unchanged. Therefore, users must be able to reuse the same story structure created in the same tool. As usual, MS Power BI makes provision for this.
Conclusion
With the right tools at your disposal, your business can achieve an effective BI storytelling project through the MS Power BI tool. It will make customers aware and keep your target audience engage with your business message.
by Dr. Jane Fitzgerald | Oct 5, 2020 | Industrial IoT
DynaGrace Enterprises, a Data Science, Emerging Technology, and IIoT Automation WOSB Firm, has added another quality line of products to the GSA Multiple Award Schedules (MAS).
Our GSA MAS federal government contracting vehicle enables us to reach more facility managers focused on clean energy initiatives. By modernizing facilities to updated codes, standards, and green building modern technologies, help them achieve their energy goals. Modernizing facilities keep workers safe and healthy. By adding building automation products from The S4 Group increases our ability to provide products that keep workers safe and save energy. ~Linda Rawson, President and Founder of DynaGrace Enterprises
Ideal Solution
The S4 Group’s suite of S4 Open Appliances is an ideal solution for building operators looking for technology to support retrofits and upgrades of buildings with legacy, proprietary building automation systems. The S4 technology facilitates a coordinated, phased approach, avoiding the cost and disruption of a brute force rip-and-replace approach.
The S4 Open: BACnet-N2 Router from the S4 Group
The S4 Open Appliances integrate installed legacy BAS systems and introduce the best of current breed generation standards-based operator workstations. The appliances provide, global control, and value-added applications such as analytics, energy management, or continuous commissioning. The S4 Open Appliances are the only products that provide co-existence with legacy head-end technology. The products become the first step in a long-term plan to replace legacy field devices with current generation open systems. Especially when budget and occupancy requirements can be best accommodated.
Upgrading Legacy Building Automation Systems
Providing technology to quickly and cost-effectively upgrade and transition legacy Building Automation Systems to current BACnet-based technology is an exciting prospect. Especially for helping DoD and other Government entities. The availability of the same capabilities previously offered to commercial building owners will help DoD make their buildings more energy-efficient, and improve indoor environments, resulting in more productive occupants. ~Steve Jones, The S4 Group
DynaGrace Enterprises and The S4 Group have teamed up to enable the transition of older facilities to BACnet-enabled smart buildings. Energy efficiency, indoor air quality, occupant safety, and comfort are all improved. Facility managers across the government sector will benefit from better visibility to the status of their buildings. The managers will also enjoy better options to control operations.
Customers can learn more about DynaGrace Enterprises by visiting the company’s website at DynaGrace.com or by calling the company directly at 888-676-0058. DynaGrace Enterprises is a Data Science, Emerging Technology and IIoT Automation Firm located in Utah.
by Dr. Jane Fitzgerald | Apr 2, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Emerging Technology, Information Technology
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Artificial Intelligence, AI, has been integrated into mainstream society, so much so, that most people use it almost every hour of every day without even noticing. My first experience with AI was through cyborgs in movies and I know some people will go immediately to the killer AI, Skynet, from the Terminator movie franchise. However, the reality is, AI is a more complex and diverse field than just murderous machines from the future.
Social Media
We interact with Artificial Intelligence every day, for example, social media: the main application that utilizes this technology. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, they use AI to keep tabs on their users and target ads for any content they are advertising. Even Google’s algorithm is a form of artificial intelligence that helps us all find what we need online in an instant. Next time you use google search when you are halfway through typing, stop and take a look at the suggestions it provides. More often than not, it typically pulls like searches from around the world, but it also takes past searches and websites you have visited previously drawing conclusions for suggested web pages. A perfect example of one form of AI in our lives, and a form some of us could not live without.
AI That Moves You
A commonly missed version of AI would be that which is built into our vehicles, from giving us new routes or accurate directions to vehicles that even drive themselves. Self-driving cars are here and wildly popular; while much of that technology is used in expensive vehicles, it is making its way to the inexpensive models. For example: many newer vehicles can stop if the car in front stops unexpectedly, what a great use of AI. Not only that, but AI is also utilized to help people take different routes to and from their destinations based on traffic patterns, just as google draws conclusions for suggested web pages, AI frequently saves time via alternate routes while driving. AI is everywhere!!
AI Fears
Some people have raised concerns with the rapid rate of development of AI, the fear that they are invading our privacy. This fear is justifiable when most of our first interactions with this technology are Hollywood blockbusters with murderous AI’s that try to wipe out all humanity, but let’s remember AI is more than that. This popular movie premise has some people living off the grid to avoid all intelligence, but it is important to remember, good or bad we are making great strides and our nation is prosperous, in part, due to those strides in AI. At the end of the day, AI can scare you, it can inspire you, or it can do a bit of both, but the decision to accept AI into our life is up to us!
https://www.tech21century.com/how-ai-has-influenced-our-society/
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