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As enterprise supply chains and consumer demand chains have beome globalized, they continue to inefficiently share information “one-up/one-down”. Profound "bullwhip effects" in the chains cause managers to scramble with inventory shortages and consumers attempting to understand product recalls, especially food safety recalls. Add to this the increasing usage of personal mobile devices by managers and consumers seeking real-time information about products, materials and ingredient sources. The popularity of mobile devices with consumers is inexorably tugging at enterprise IT departments to shifting to apps and services. But both consumer and enterprise data is a proprietary asset that must be selectively shared to be efficiently shared.

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Monday
Jun092008

Statistical Visualization: How Different Groups Voted in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries

DateMonday, June 9, 2008 at 2:46AM

The New York Times is a leader in online, interactive statistical visualization.

Here's a recent example that statistically re-stacks exit poll results regarding how each state voted for Obama and Clinton during the just completed 2008 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries.

Choose by sex, income, race, age, income and education, and watch as each state - represented by a block - is re-positioned according to how close or how far each state is percentage-wise away from the interesection of the X/Y axes. Run your pointer over each state's block, too, to gather statistical data specific to each state.


New York Times Interactive Graphic

For those of you with further interest in what the New York time is significantly accomplishing, check out a May 16th blog by Jon Udell entitled A conversation with Gabriel Dance and Shan Carter about interactive graphics at the New York Times. This is a short blog prefacing an audio interview conducted by Udell produced by ITConversations and entitled Shan Carter & Gabriel Dance: Enhancing Online News Content (57m).

Without going into further detail, I have listened to this audio podcast (also available for free download via iTunes) and this is a fascinating interchange between Udell, Carter and Dance. It's much much of the nuts and bolts (still highly manual) that go into creating statistical visualizations that serve to connect ordinary people with data that they would otherwise be oblivious to.

I highly recommend downloading Udell's podcast to your iPod!

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