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Data Visualization and Observability: The Critical Bridge to Taking ActionCategory: Business, Database, Data, automation
New Relic sponsored this post. As a young Information Architect in the earliest of web interactive agencies, I greedily absorbed any good examples of data visualization I could find, from the coffee-table sized Edward Tufte series of books, to novel representations of quantities and events in classic video games like Railroad Tycoon and Civilization.
Data visualization involves designing and engineering a human-computer interface, or metrics dashboard, to allow better human cognition and analysis of data atop live data streams and archived data.
The most familiar IT data visualizations are rather Ops-focused and granular — showing views for the consumption of data storage or network bandwidth, or the utilization of sets of servers or VMs running in a data center, or the status of instances or containers running in a company’s cloud account. New Relic recently showed me their New Relic Explorer platform, which can zoom out to provide a more global data visualization across multiple applications and services.
Data visualization involves designing and engineering a human-computer interface, or metrics dashboard, to allow better human cognition and analysis of data atop live data streams and archived data.
The most familiar IT data visualizations are rather Ops-focused and granular — showing views for the consumption of data storage or network bandwidth, or the utilization of sets of servers or VMs running in a data center, or the status of instances or containers running in a company’s cloud account. New Relic recently showed me their New Relic Explorer platform, which can zoom out to provide a more global data visualization across multiple applications and services.
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