1. Data Visualization and Discovery
Vitaliy Rudnytskiy, SAP

2. Let’s talk about:
- What and why
- A bit of history
- Data Visual and
Discovery from SAP
- What’s coming…
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3. Let’s start with…
- … me! :)
- Former BI consultant
- Now with SAP’s Developer Experience team
- Analytics
- Central & Eastern Europe
- SAP Mentor since autumn 2010
- Based in Wrocław, Poland
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4. Data Visualization: A bit of history
based on „The Visual display of Quantitive Information” by Edward Tufte, 1982/2001

5. First known time series chart (X-XI century)
Inclinations of the planetary orbits from monastery school’s textbook
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6. Re-appearance of time series chart: 1700th
Variations of soil temperature in relation to the depth. Berlin, 1779
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7. First geospatial chart
Location of death from cholera in Central London for September 1854 by Dr John Show
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8. Introduction of Relational Graphics: neither Time nor Geo
Apparently the first use of pie charts: The Statistical Breviary, by William Playfair, 1801
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9. Let’s move to modern times

10. Data Visualization with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard
aka Xcelsius
Great public case: http://bit.ly/sbodius
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11. Data Discovery with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
aka Polestar
Great public case: http://bit.ly/sboerec
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12. Data Discovery story in SAP…
Polestar is born On the iPad
Simplicity and speed of “On-the-fly" and
search with the power and regardless of where
trust of BI you are
May
2007 2009 2010
2012
Explorer Accelerated SAP
Massive amounts of data at Visual
the speed of thought… Intelligence
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13. SAP Visual Intelligence – key capabilities
1. DATA Acquisition 2. Data 3. Data 4. Share your work
Transformation Visualization …
 Acquire your own Data  Transform Data the  Insight from  Send your
from different data way you want it structured and visualizations,
sources unstructured data Dataset by Email or
 Make data better StreamWork
 Combine multiple Data suited for discovery  On operational data
sources and analysis for agility across  Publish a new View
your value chain on Hana
 Merge Corporate and
your own data
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14. The 1st Ultimate Data Geek Challenge
Step 0: Watch examples at http://www.sap.com/datageek
Step 1: Download the free 30-day trial of SAP Visual
Intelligence from www.sap.com/tryvisualintelligence
Step 2: Grab your favorite data, or use the data sets
we've provided
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15. Where to Find More Information on SAP VisI
Web site – www.sap.com/visualintelligence
Trial – www.sap.com/tryvisualintelligence
SCN – scn.sap.com/community/visual-intelligence
Blog – blogs.sap.com/analytics
Videos – www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FF03148AD0742B1
Twitter feed – twitter.com/#!/search/%23sapvisi
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16. Let’s move to future

17. LAVA
LAVA is being developed as a user experience standard for analytic content in
SAP products
The project began in 2011 as a team effort of the SAP Experience Team
LAVA is best described as a method for analytic consumption
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18. Thank you
Contact information:
Vitaliy Rudnytskiy, SAP
vitaliy.rudnytskiy@sap.com