data visualization

o Go to Tableau Public gallery at https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery and find 2 to 3 vizzes you like, click on the vizz and then download them with the button in the bottom-right corner to try to understand how they were made. 

o Go to Stephen Few’s blog “The Perceptual Edge” ( perceptualedge.com) and to the section of “Examples.” In this section, he provides critiques of various dashboard examples. Read a handful of these examples. 

o Go to dundas.com. Select the “Gallery” section of the site. Once there, click the “Digital Dashboard” selection. You will be shown a variety of different dashboard demos. Run a couple of the demos. 

Discuss these questions with the group: 

· which 2 or 3 vizzes interested you? 

· what were some of the good design points and bad design points of the vizzes & demos? 

· What sorts of information and metrics were shown on the vizzes & demos? 

2.Analytics Software 

discuss the following software (do an Internet search for information about these products or use your experience with these products): 1) Microsoft Excel, 2) Microsoft Access, 3) Tableau, 4) R-, 5) PowerBI, or 6) OLAP solutions. 

choose one of the 6 products above, conduct research on that product, and discuss which product might be the best for an OLAP solution. (2 pages)