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Published inJul 2017
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ISBN-139781787120730
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Andrew Minteer
Andrew Minteer
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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
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Designing visual analysis for IoT data


We will review some important considerations when designing visual analysis with special attention for IoT data.

Using layout positioning to convey importance

Layout position implies what is important and primary; you should take advantage of this to help communicate more effectively with your audience. In Western cultures, the eye starts in the upper-left position of a view. This is due to years of habit reading from left to right and top to bottom. This is where one's eye goes first by habit. Put the key message here: the answer to your starting point question.

As you travel right and lower in a view, put the visuals (including tables and text) in order of its position in the question tree. This will follow along with eye movement and the audience's thought process:

Recommended layout order when showing multiple visuals in same view

In other cultures, apply the same concept but follow the position order that aligns with reading order. For example, in Pakistan...

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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787120730

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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
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