Category Archives: Visualization

Specific visualization concepts

Visualizing HR 660

Posted on April 19, 2019 by DaltonRuer

Politics is a topic we are supposed to stay away from. It turns friends into enemies. Plus House Resolutions are just a bunch of boring text who has time for all that jazz. Certainly won’t find any in other data … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Analytics in Virtual Reality

Posted on November 5, 2018 by DaltonRuer

Total Immersion How cool is this image of a physician totally immersed in patient data in this virtual world? As soon as the coolness wheres off your brain is left scrambling for reality. Can we really do this? Would it … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Data Fluency

Posted on August 30, 2017 by DaltonRuer

The real question that’s plagued the world has never been “Should I visualize the data?” it’s always been “How should I visualize the data?” Because it’s not that people don’t want to see things visually it’s a matter of how … Continue reading →

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Removing the clutter

Posted on February 13, 2017 by DaltonRuer

Ask any Data Visualization expert and one of the best pieces of advice that they will give you is “remove the clutter” so that your “data can tell the story.” Would it be going to far if I suggested that … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Data that does not exist … aka Readmissions Dashboard

Posted on July 29, 2016 by DaltonRuer

Many who make requests seem to have a belief that Business Intelligence is magic. They loose their ability to listen to logic and reason and simply ask you to do the impossible. Many who make requests seem to have a belief … Continue reading →

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Have you ever wondered …

Posted on May 19, 2016 by DaltonRuer

Have you ever wondered what events happen to patients after a particular surgery is performed? Well I did. Like I seriously can’t sleep when I start wondering about things like that. I start believing crazy things like we can change … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Advanced Analytics

Posted on March 18, 2016 by DaltonRuer

Advanced Analytics with Aster I recently stumbled upon Teradata’s Aster and I’m pretty fired up. It turns out there is an entire community dedicated to helping data visualization people like myself learn how to implement advanced analytic functions. The site … Continue reading →

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Visualizing How to Improve

Posted on January 7, 2016 by DaltonRuer

Besides helping customers by day and being an all around Qlik Dork at other times I happen to have a very strong passion for helping fastpitch softball players elevate their game. When I say elevate their game I mean getting over … Continue reading →

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The Power of Now

Posted on October 10, 2015 by DaltonRuer

One of my favorite activities as a child was doing mental puzzles. Matchstick puzzles like this were among my favorites. Easy to understand wording like “Move 2 matchsticks and turn this fish that is swimming to the left into a … Continue reading →

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Visualizing the Data Consumption Continuum

Posted on September 28, 2015 by DaltonRuer

As this is intended to be a blog about visualization it seemed only fitting that I devote this post to visualizing the concept I introduced last week that I called a Data Consumption Continuum. It all started with … A … Continue reading →

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