Today’s world is filled with an ever growing about of information to be processed.
How do you determine what to focus on and what to tune out?
How do you best organize this information to persuade your management team to make purchases or agree to de-commissioning of certain hardware or software?
These were two of several questions that Florian Vogler and I discussed with attendees at a "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) session during Lotusphere 2012. Our discussion included agreement that the data is, well, just data, without two other important pieces of information:
The PURPOSE of collecting or analyzing the data
The AUDIENCE for the data analysis
If the information you are collecting does not help achieve your purposes - ignore it. If the data you are collecting will not be meaningful to your audience, do not include it.
Given my job as a UI designer for collaboration and social media, I try to think of ways to help business end users see relationships (for example, with email messages, with each other) and with Composition - (for example, the content of emails, blog posts). Florian, on the other hand, as a provider of client and server analysis tools, tries to think of ways to help administrators see comparisons ( for example, space before and after compression) and distributions (for example,network topology visualizations). Thus, we focused on 4 different things to show when providing information/data analysis:
Relationship
Composition
Comparison
Distribution
What you want to show should determine whether you use charts at all, and what type of chart to use. Here are some common chart types based on what you want to show:
Relationship: Histogram, scatter chart (For social network analysis, there are new types of relationship maps being designed as well)
Composition: Pie charts are probably most common, but new visualizations like Tag clouds and Wordle are emerging
Comparison: Side by side bara charts and column charts are the norm
Distribution: Histograms and scatter charts have been common, and panagenda has provided an interactive topology map in their Green Light product.
Amit Agarwal has provided a nice visualization of what type of chart to use and when (although it does not include tag clouds, Wordle or a topology map). Go here to check out the larger format.
We didn't solve all of our information overload problems during the BOF, but we shared some really good ideas, and left thinking about how to create new and different ways to filter, analyze, and display all this information.
How do you deal with the every day bombardement of information, both in your professional and personal lives? Do you turn your mobile device off at a certain time? Are you on a mission to "unfollow" digital input?
- Mary Beth Raven
Got Puzzled?
Mon, Feb 6th 2012 1:23p francie tanner Puzzled by the panagenda giveaway puzzles from Lotusphere 2012? Still can't figure out how to take one apart or put it back together?
Turns out, the Hamayama metal puzzles we gave away are quite difficult to solve, and even once you manage to take them apart, putting them back together may seem virtually impossible!
But fear not, our local resident geeks at panagenda have solved and re-solved every.single.one of those Hamayama puzzles and we're here to tell you - it IS possible!
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Mary Beth Raven: Finding the Balance Between too much and not enough information
Mon, Jan 30th 2012 11:23a francie tanner Today’s world is filled with an ever growing about of information to be processed.
How do you determine what to focus on and what to tune out?
How do you best organize this information to persuade your management team to make purchases or agree to de-commissioning of certain hardware or software?
These were two of several questions that Florian Vogler and I discussed with attendees at a "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) session during Lotusphere 2012. Our discussion included agreement that [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Thank you. No, really.... (and Lotusphere Slides too)
Tue, Jan 24th 2012 2:43p francie tanner Just a quick post to express our gratitude.... thank each and every one of you that stopped by our booth last week at Lotusphere 2012.
Thank you to everyone who came to any of our sessions.
Thank you to each and every one of you who stopped us in the hall, sent us emails, responded on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or anything else.
Thank you to everyone that reached out and shared your opinion, provided us with feedback, came by to grab bucky balls or the metal puzzles.
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Bacon, Chocolate AND Java
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 12:43p francie tanner If your response to this blog post title is "Things I love to eat for $500, Alex", then you're exactly the kind of Lotusphere 2012 attendee we want to talk to!
Come by our booths 507/508/509 tonight between 6pm and 8pm to see the lovely panagenda crew including Mary Beth Raven and Julian Robichaux. We'll be happy to talk to you about our FREE MarvelClient Analyze or GreenLight Database Analyzer licenses, bacon, chocolate, java coding, yellow capes, bucky balls and tropical islands.
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Guest Blogger Mary Beth Raven: "Finding the Balance Between Too Much and Not Enough Information"
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 2:22p francie tanner Mary Beth writes:
"Hello! I am excited to join panagenda at Lotusphere 2012 handing out Austrian chocolates and other fun stuff at booth 507/508/509. I am also presenting a BoF with the panagenda CEO Florian Vogler. Please come by and see me and say hello. I will be easy to spot with my hard-to-miss yellow cape!
Finding the Balance Between Too Much and Not Enough Information
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Shhht, Super Secret Give-Away Unlock Code
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 2:22p francie tanner Psst, over here....
Do you remember the super duper give-aways we had last year at our Lotusphere 2011 booth? I'm not going to say the words out loud but they were a huge hit and got snagged up before the conference ended.
Pic courtesy of Vowe
This year at Lotusphere 2012, we have another give-away, not the above, but still very cool. Come by and check it out, but for those of you with the intel, we have a very small number of limited panagenda mini bucky b....., well, you know [read] Keywords: ibm
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UKLUG Slides, iPad2 and LCTY
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 5:22p francie tanner We're back from UKLUG 2011 (without luggage as usual), a huge thank you goes out to the organizers, sponsors and attendeed who made it to Manchester, UK.
Francie Tanner had the priviledge to present "The Definitive Guide to Client Management" and if you attended, please do submit your evals here and let the organizers, sponsors and speakers know what your favorite session or topic was. Slides for "The Definitive Guide to Client Management" are enclosed and as always, post a comm [read] Keywords: ibm
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"Oooh Pretty" for your IBM Lotus Notes Client
Wed, Jan 19th 2011 4:46p francie tanner It's been
around for years, but in case you're not privy to having an "Oooh pretty" IBM Lotus Notes client workspace yet, then here is your chance for FREE company branding or just personal beautifulcation of your client.
All you need is any version IBM Lotus Notes client, then download the zip file
here and follow the instructions in the enclosed "Read Me" file. The FREE panagenda MarvelClient Skinning edition works with any language and setup / install type supported by IBM [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere Scheduling and the Great Geek Challenge
Thu, Jan 13th 2011 9:23a francie tanner If you're working on your Lotusphere 2011 schedule, here a few resources for you to consider while you're trying to figure out how to fit 10 sessions and events per day, into a mere 24 hours.
First of all, get Ben Langhinrichs' Lotusphere Agenda Database
here, then get the Turtle Partnership's iPhone or Blackberry apps which can be found by going to the Apple App store or the Blackberry AppWorld.
Next add "The Great Geek Challenge" to your schedule per Gab's
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