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from unspecific file types and government sources): that you can accurately
portray the meaning of the data through the way that you visualize it.
Microsoft has advanced visualization tools (for example, Power View and
Power Map). Other organizations, such as Tableau, have additional
advanced visualizations, and many organizations are looking at a
multivendor approach for their reporting and visualization needs as they
explore thebeginning (andevolving) ecosystem. Afterall,noonevendor has
really cornered the market on visualization. Even open source tools give us a
lot of visualization ability right from the command line. As we begin to turn
our data into analysis, those graphics can be pulled out directly and put into
presentations or shared with our user base.
As all of us are aware, the analysis is only as valuable as the level with
whichwecancommunicateittoourendusers,executives,andstakeholders.
If we cannot visualize and communicate the analysis, its impact, and our
recommendations, we will not be successful no matter what technology we
are using.
User Audiences
Several user audiences will exist for these types of solutions. So, you want to
understand what things each of these user audiences will be most concerned
about as you begin to discuss how these new solutions will affect their
day-to-day operations. Let's review some of the more important user
audiences.
Consumers
Consumers will be some of your easiest customers. They are primarily
concerned with where to go to run reports and where to go to direct their
data collection activities.
To complete typical jobs, consumers will likely use Hive tables under the
covers that you have created and exposed for them. These Hive tables will
be the easiest way for them to query underlying data structures, unless they
have a tool such as Power Query from Microsoft, which will enable them to
go directly to files in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
Your consumers will be used to using all of their existing tools, so it is
important that you help them understand that many of these tools will
continue to be used in exactly the same way, that they do not have to
