July 2nd, 2007
Data Visualization for Project Failures
The Information Aesthetics blog presents a nice way for visualizing certain kinds of data. As you can see from the image below, the chart displays three kinds of data simultaneously:
- X-axis data, such as time series
- Y-axis data, such as a set of scores
- Size data, governing magnitude for the data being represented
In effect, this visualization adds time-series and magnitude-series to a standard bubble chart. The example provided in the Information Aesthetics blog relates to social media, but I could easily see this being used to plot causes of project failure over time.
Michael Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures. Click here to discuss this post with him on Twitter. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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