Coronavirus in Latin America

March 22, 2020 by anamecheverri

Coronavirus in Latin America has spread with a lag of several weeks vs. the rest of the world with most documented confirmed cases starting the first week of March. Many countries in Latin America have already established severe social distancing and lockdowns so hopefully with the benefit of early measures, the spread of the virus has the potential of being more controlled but of course it is too early to know. You can explore some of the data by clicking on this link and exploring each of the tabs.

The data comes from the World Health Organization which lags a couple of days and I updated it frequently.

Coronavirus Stats

March 15, 2020 by anamecheverri

Data gives me peace of mind. Even when data is showing a really negative trend, it gives me a sense of control to know what is going on. So with the Coronavirus pandemic, I decided to spend some time looking at the data from the world health organization and I built a few interactive charts using Tableau public. The news are definitely not good. Especially for those of us in the USA as we are just getting started and the number of confirmed cases is growing exponentially. The death rate in the USA is lower than in other countries -for now – so that is the good news.

Here are some of the visualizations if you are interested…. Just click on Coronavirus Stats, and navigate the charts by clicking on the top tabs.

Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms – At a Glance

July 2, 2015 by anamecheverri

Industry analysis reports are always packed with great information, lots of it. Data visualization however helps better understand the conclusions reached by Forrester in their The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q1 2015 report. 11 vendors in this industry are included.

Table 1 shows the summary scorecard, and details are presented below the table.

Table 1 – Enterprise Business Intelligence Scorecard

The top level comparisons involve 3 categories: Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence.

Vendors with above-average scores

Current Offering: IBM, Information Builders, Microsoft, Opentext, SAP, SAS

Strategy: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and SAS

Market Presence: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and SAS

We can also look at the scores that went into every one of these categories and see how vendors compare at a more granular level.

Current Offering Details

Vendors with above-average scores for Current Offering

Architecture: Information Builders, Microstrategy, Opentext, SAP, SAS

Development Environment: Microsoft, Opentext, and SAS

Functional Capabilities: IBM, Information Builders, Microsoft, SAP and SAS

Operational Capabilities: IBM, Information Builders, Microstrategy, Opentext

Strategy Details

Vendors with above-average scores for Strategy

Commitment: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS

Pricing: IBM, Information Builders, Microsoft, Opentext, Qlik and TIBCO

Transparency: Tableau

Product Direction: IBM, Information Builders, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and SAS

Market Presence Details

Vendors with above-average scores for Market Presence

Company Financials: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Qlik, SAP, SAS

Global Presence Base: IBM, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Oracle, SAP, and SAS

Partnership Ecosystem: IBM, Microsfoft, Oracle, SAP, and SAS

Functional Applications: IBM, Oracle, SAP, and SAS