SAS/GRAPH gives the SAS developer unparalleled flexibility for creating compelling custom data visualizations. At the same time, data visualization is becoming more important in creating Web dashboards. By combining SAS/GRAPH and the stored process HTTP level interface, the SAS developer can create visualization stored processes that are data neutral, reusable, and dashboard ready. This approac...

Improved data analysis through Business Intelligence can provide many benefits including:  Ability for end users to get the data when they need it and in the forms they need it in through a self service BI model.  Executives can monitor the state of the business through Key Performance Indicator dashboards  Spot trends and exceptions in the data with real time analytical processing  Automat...

With the increasing importance of text analytics in all disciplines, e.g., science, business, and social media analytics, it has become important to extract actionable insights from text in a timely manner. In this work, we take a close look at Interactive Data Exploration. We first introduce a novel interactive framework that allows social media analysts to tweak the text mining dashboards not...

Learning analytics means gathering a broad range of data, bringing the various sources together, and analyzing them. However, to draw educational insights from the results of the analyses, these results must be visualized and presented to the educators and learners. This task is often accomplished by using dashboards equipped with conventional and often simple visualizations such as bar charts ...

This position paper is concerned with the research and design of infocommunication technologies for citizen engagement and learning in smart ecosystems. The work assumes a human-centric citizen-driven smart city design approach and also proposes a R&D iterative framework model based on SOA work that goes from citizen inquiry to a front-end dashboard paradigm proposal. A research framework is di...

Teacher dashboards provide real-time information about students’ performance and progress, which help K-12 teachers to adjust feedback student’ specific needs during learning. Prior research indicated two problems with respect how feedback: (i) do not always select the most effective support learning (ii) is allocated equally students different abilities. Specifically, process considered yet re...

This article develops a Sustainability Informatics Framework, a framework that connects Information Technology with sustainability and is based on the Belief-Action-Outcome and Energy Informatics frameworks. The triple-bottom line (People, Planet, and Profit) is adopted as a criterion for measuring sustainability and three sustainability indices are first formulated and then visualized using Su...