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What is Data Virtualization?

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Muito clara introdução ao tema da virtualização de dados.

What is Data Virtualization?

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Hi I’m Jared Hillam, There are a lot of parts and components that
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go into accurately gathering data. However, at the heart of any well-crafted solution
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is the data integration and query logic. This is the logic that tells the database what
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data is being requested and how to process it. Where that logic exists turns out to be
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a very important topic when all is said and done as you’ll find in this video. To illustrate
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this let me share with you an example. Many years ago I worked for a software company
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that sought out to fix a common problem found in Operational Reporting. We developed a product
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that allowed you to open 1000s of operational reports and edit all of them at once. Why

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An Example of R Versatility

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An Example of R Versatility

By Dave Collingridge

In my last blog post I mentioned a few advantages to learning R. One of those advantages is that R opens up a world of new data analyses. There are novel techniques available in R that are not found in the ANALYZE drop down menus of SPSS, Stata, and Statistica. Novel techniques in R can be a big help in situations where data are not well-suited for traditional analyses like t-tests, ANOVA, and regression.

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Best Uses of Data Visualization

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Um curto mas bom vídeo sobre as várias facetas da visualização de dados.

Best Uses of Data Visualization
February 1, 2015

Data visualizations are everywhere these days, and why? Think of data visualization as information at a glance, a kind of language of statistics for the eyes.

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Base R Version

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Excelentes exemplos de gráficos que podem usar nos trabalhos.

One Variable: Numeric Variable

One Variable: Factor Variable

Two Variables: Two Numeric Variables

Two Variables: Two Factor Variables

Two Variables: One Factor and One Numeric

Three Variables: Three Factor Variables

Three Variables: One Numeric and Two Factor Variables

Three Variables: Two Numeric and One Factor Variables

Three Variables: Three Numeric Variables

Scatterplot Matrix of all Numeric Vars, colored by a Factor variable

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SticiGui – online statistics book

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The beautiful R charts in London: The Information Capital

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Um bom exemplo de utilização de gráficos do R em ilustração.

If you’ve lived in or simply love London, a wonderful new book for your coffee-table is London: The Information Capital. In 100 beautifully-rendered charts, the book explores the data that underlies the city and its residents. To create most of these charts, geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti relied on programs written in R. Using the R programming language not only created beautiful results, it saved time: “a couple of lines of code in R saved a day of manually drawing lines”.

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Spreadsheet Addiction

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Um bom e muito completo relato dos defeitos do MS Excel para análise de dados.
Some people will think that the “addiction” in the title is over the top, or at least used metaphorically. It is used literally, and is not an exaggeration.

Addiction is the persistent use of a substance where that use is detrimental to the user. It is not the substance that is the problem — more limited use may be beneficial. It is the extent and circumstances of the use that determine if the behavior is addictive or not.

Spreadsheets are a wonderful invention. They are an excellent tool for what they are good at. The problem is that they are often stretched far beyond their home territory. Dangerous abuse of spreadsheets is only too common.

I know there are many spreadsheets in financial companies that take all night to compute. These are complicated and commonly fail. When such spreadsheets are replaced by code more suited to the task, it is not unusual for the computation time to be cut to a few minutes and the process much easier to understand.

A 2012 example of spreadsheet addiction.

The technology acceptance model holds that there are two main factors that determine the uptake of a technology: the perceived usefulness and the perceived ease-of-use. Perception need not correspond to reality.

The perception of the ease-of-use of spreadsheets is to some extent an illusion. It is dead easy to get an answer from a spreadsheet, however, it is not necessarily easy to get the right answer. Thus the distorted view.

The difficulty of using alternatives to spreadsheets is overestimated by many people. Safety features can give the appearance of difficulty when in fact these are an aid.

The hard way looks easy, the easy way looks hard.

The remainder of this page is divided into the sections:

Spreadsheet Computation
The Treatment Center (Alternatives)
If You Must Persist
Specific Problems with Excel
Additional Links

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Data Visualization with JavaScript

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Um bom e-book sobre como construir visualizações com JavaScript

It’s getting hard to ignore the importance of data in our lives. Data is critical to the largest social organizations in human history. It can affect even the least consequential of our everyday decisions. And its collection has widespread geopolitical implications. Yet it also seems to be getting easier to ignore the data itself. One estimate suggests that 99.5% of the data our systems collect goes to waste. No one ever analyzes it effectively.

Data visualization is a tool that addresses this gap.

Effective visualizations clarify; they transform collections of abstract artifacts (otherwise known as numbers) into shapes and forms that viewers quickly grasp and understand. The best visualizations, in fact, impart this understanding subconsciously. Viewers comprehend the data immediately—without thinking. Such presentations free the viewer to more fully consider the implications of the data: the stories it tells, the insights it reveals, or even the warnings it offers. That, of course, defines the best kind of communication.

If you’re developing web sites or web applications today, there’s a good chance you have data to communicate, and that data may be begging for a good visualization. But how do you know what kind of visualization is appropriate? And, even more importantly, how do you actually create one? Answers to those very questions are the core of this book. In the chapters that follow, we explore dozens of different visualizations and visualization techniques and tool kits. Each example discusses the appropriateness of the visualization (and suggests possible alternatives) and provides step-by-step instructions for including the visualization in your own web pages.

To give you a better idea of what to expect from the book, here’s a quick description of what the book is, and what it is not.

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F1Timeline

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mais uma excelente animação, neste caso com tudo sobre os pilotos da F1 desde tempos imemoriais.

Hi, I’m Peter Cook and I love turning data into insightful, beautiful and interactive works.

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