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Published inDec 2017
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Thirukkumaran Haridass
Thirukkumaran Haridass
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Thirukkumaran Haridass

Thirukkumaran Haridass currently works as a lead software engineer at Builder Homesite Inc. in Austin, Texas, USA. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working on the Google Cloud Platform for more than 3 years. Haridass is responsible for the big data initiatives in his organization that help the company and its customers realize the value of their data. He has played various roles in the IT industry and worked for Fortune 500 companies in various verticals, such as retail, e-commerce, banking, automotive, and presently, real estate online marketing.
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Eric Brown currently works as an analytics manager for PMG advertising in Austin, Texas. Eric has over 11 years of experience in the data analytics field. He has been working on the Google Cloud Platform for over 3 years. He oversees client web analytics implementations and implements big data integrations in both Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. Eric has a passion for analytics, and especially for visualization and data manipulation through open source tools such as R. He has worked in various roles in various verticals, such as web analytics service providers, media companies, real-estate online marketing, and advertising.
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Why is data visualization important?

Julie is a data analyst working for a sporting goods e-commerce site. She has responsibilities that include reporting on the site's performance. The site includes multiple site categories, such as menswear, womenswear, as well as sporting equipment and shoes. Each category requires separate reporting as well as analysis on an ad hoc basis. Julie loves her work as she has been afforded the opportunity to monitor and analyze datasets of extreme size and complexity. This, however, is also one of her biggest challenges as she has a hard time understanding data of such size and complexity. This is one of the most important challenges data visualization tackles.

By adding data visualization to her repertoire, Julie can turn her unwieldy and static text data into several charts that both drive action and convey the underlying data in a much more...

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Published in: Dec 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787288591

Authors (3)

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Thirukkumaran Haridass

Thirukkumaran Haridass currently works as a lead software engineer at Builder Homesite Inc. in Austin, Texas, USA. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working on the Google Cloud Platform for more than 3 years. Haridass is responsible for the big data initiatives in his organization that help the company and its customers realize the value of their data. He has played various roles in the IT industry and worked for Fortune 500 companies in various verticals, such as retail, e-commerce, banking, automotive, and presently, real estate online marketing.
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Eric Brown

Eric Brown currently works as an analytics manager for PMG advertising in Austin, Texas. Eric has over 11 years of experience in the data analytics field. He has been working on the Google Cloud Platform for over 3 years. He oversees client web analytics implementations and implements big data integrations in both Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. Eric has a passion for analytics, and especially for visualization and data manipulation through open source tools such as R. He has worked in various roles in various verticals, such as web analytics service providers, media companies, real-estate online marketing, and advertising.
Read more about Eric Brown