I am currently doing visualization on my project and I need to know whether the visualization I have done is BI visualization or not.
So is there any difference between Visualization and BI Visualization? If yes, then what are the differences?
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Sign up to join this communityBI is obsolete term used as marketing umbrella for various companies (like IBM, Oracle or SAP) to create illusion that they are relevant.
Data Visualization (DV) is a more specific and modern term: DV allowing users to see, explore, drilldown and interact with their data. It is a huge variety of DV vendors, but 3 of them are way ahead of others (Spotfire/TIBCO, Tableau, Qlikview/Qliktech) if you do not wish to do much coding and focus on your data and business problems. However if you willing to do some own development, you can find some excellent SDKs on market (D3 as a leading example), which can enable you to do useful visualizations but it will require more of your time and reduce your overall productivity.
In any case Data Visualization cannot provide a complete solution to your analytical problems and needs to be used together with analytical tools like R.
A lift chart (and the measurement of uplift in general) is a decent example of a business-centric visualization: they seem to be used mostly for marketing and related applications. I can imagine some non-business situations where a lift chart would be an effective tool, but I don't think I've ever come across one of them in the wild. To confirm this hunch, I took a quick look at the Google Image results for lift chart, and the first page seems business-y (the labels say "marketing campaign" or "customers" etc).
Nick Cox's comment on the question is apt. Some visualizations might not make sense in a business context (state space diagrams?). Others might be over-represented, either due to the subject matter or just by convention (e.g., some of these lift charts look suspiciously like ROC curves in disguise).
If you wondering whether visualization experience in general would qualify you for a BI Visualization job, I'd say yes, but you might want to poke around a bit to make sure you produce "idiomatic" charts that match your customer/client/employers' expectations.
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. I had heard a lot aboutBI Visualization
and need to confirm whether there is any difference between visualization and BI Visualization. $\endgroup$