Sunday, 24 March 2013

ITBAL Assignment Session 9 : Data Visualisation Tools


 

Data Visualisation Tool : visual.ly


Successfully getting through a job interiew in today's competitive world is all about being able to sell yourself properly, more importantly, uniquely. One such very unique software application is provided by visual.ly. This helps in building visual and pictorial resumes. Thus, visual.ly provides data visualisation at a basic yet effective and unique manner.

With widespread use of internet and advent of online or digital marketing, its a good idea to provide visual representation of the same boring word docs or pdfs. Although having a pictorial resum might sound unprofessional, you never know that might turn out to be your usp. Also notable is the ease with wich the interface is maintained between the app and the data source. The app directly feteches the relevant info from the linked in profile to which it is mapped at a higher level. Once the information is fetched, the visual resume is available in few seconds time. Also impressive is the level of flexibility and variety of choices that visual.ly offers to the users in selecting the format of the resume.

Since the software is on the cloud and the service is available as per demand, there is no need have prior requirements. Instant loggin in to the internet is enough to avail the service.
Thus, although very basic, the pictorial resume app by visual.ly has a very effective and attractive use in the field of data visualisation. To convey ideas effectively, both aesthetic form and functionality need to go hand in hand, providing insights into a rather sparse and complex data set by communicating its key-aspects in a more intuitive way. Yet designers often fail to achieve a balance between form and function, creating gorgeous data visualizations which fail to serve their main purpose — to communicate information".

Visual.ly was founded by Stew Langille, Lee Sherman, Tal Siach, and Adam Breckler in 2011. Besides the feature of online resume-making, visual.ly can be used to create and publish their own data visualizations.Through this tool, users will be able to gather information from databases and APIs in an automated service to produce an infographic.

Few notable USPs of visual.ly resume creator :
Simple user friendly User Interface
Numerous options regarding visual presentation of different types of data are available
The full tool is available online on cloud
It is fast
Results are attractive and elegant
Options to retain and avail that data are available.

Data Visualisation Tool URL :  Visual.ly: (http://visual.ly/)

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