Visual analytics and sports ; " Taking the game to new levels"

http://www.sloansportsconference.com/?p=9994

Visual analytics are being used in applications to improve professional players's performance when playing their respective sports.
Coaches use the Data collected by the supporting staff and the assistant coaches in order to guide players on what optimal decisions to take and when exactly. These conclusions are based on studying trends that are repeated by opponent teams. Teams who use these tools to study trends and prepare accordingly have managed to merge technology and sports in a very creative way, and most importantly help improve player performance.

A Small Detour into Web Analytics :-)

Well, I know that the topic of this blog is Visual Analytics; But when I saw our blog crossing a viewership of one thousand, it's first thousand, I could not resist sharing some of the interesting Web Analytics Stats about how it has done so far, with our viewers. So, from the home page of our blog which hosts a counter of views, all the way until division of viewers as per the region, and other web analytics, we are herby posting it all.

Life is all about finding joy in little things that take place around us everyday. Do Join us in this celebration of a ton and enjoy reading posts on our blog, the ones posted earlier and the ones coming in near future!!

SAS is up to the Challenge!

More and more organizations are finding value in big data with SAS Visual Analytics. Global customers and industry watchers quickly recognized the advanced graphic solution's self-service data visualization as the key to yielding valuable insight.

SAS Visual Analytics combines industry-leading analytics with unique in-memory architecture, intuitive data exploration, and the option to deliver information to a wide variety of platforms, - including iPad and Android tablets.

I dare to say that so far SAS offers the only in-memory engine designed specifically for business visualization of big data on general-purpose, nonproprietary hardware.

SAS Visual Analytics, which runs on commodity hardware or database appliances from EMC Greenplum and Teradata, supports increasing demands for fast answers from big data.

Even, Employees with limited or no previous experience or skills in analytics can understand and benefit from the use of Visual Analytics, as all of the sophisticated, complex data is seamlessly integrated with a variety of user-friendly features such as on-the-fly predictions and scenarios, autocharting, 'what does it mean' pop-ups, and drag-and-drop capabilities.

Analytical Art

The human brain is limited in the ability to comprehend vastly large and complex truths. For example, it is impossible for the human brain to be able to visualize the size of our galaxy which is only a tiny portion of our universe. The number of zero's you have to multiply the size of the earth by attests to this fact. You can't think in these kinds of quantities or sizes. Its just not biologically wired into our little brains. Sizing down to compare the Earth to the size of Jupiter is a bit more feasible. If you were to compare the two you would be astonished, you can fit 1,321 Earths into Jupiter. Wow! When you see the visual of this you get the picture! And this is the point! Visual information can have profound effects on us, it can trigger emotions, feelings, and amazement. For the fun of visual analytics I just wanted to highlight a great source for presenting information in an artistic way. See the Link below for "Information is Beautiful."

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/popular/


Also watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4u4JJAPGk

seconds 2:20-2:46

Latest Visual Analytics deal!

Yesterday the 2nd of Sep 2013,  The German firm Software AG, which provides big data, integration and business process technologies, has announced the acquisition of US-based real-time visual analytics provider JackBe Corporation, and says it will shortly launch a new platform making use of JackBe’s technology.

AG is expected to launch the new web Methods Intelligent Business Operations Platform (IBO) for early access customers in Q4 2013. The platform will use JackBe’s mashup, analytic and visualization capabilities and according to AG, ‘will allow a comprehensive 360-degree view of operational processes by combining live, historical and transactional data with machine-to-machine (Industrial Internet) communications into real-time visualizations’. It also includes tools to put changes based on this intelligence rapidly into action, including dynamic and automated business processes.