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Data Visualization: Exploring and Explaining
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Data Visualization: Exploring and Explaining with Data (2nd Edition)
Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry & Jeffrey W. Ohlmann
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2 Selecting a Chart Type
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Chapter 3 Data Visualization and Design
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Chapter 4 Purposeful Use of Color

Chapter 5
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Visualizing Variability

Chapter 6 Exploring Data Visually
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Chapter 7 Explaining Visually to Influence with Data
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Chapter 8 Data Dashboards

Chapter 9
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Telling the Truth with Data Visualization
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1. Types of Analytics. Indicate which type of analytics (descriptive, predictive, or
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prescriptive analytics) each of the following represents. LO 1
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a. a data dashboard
b. a model that finds the production schedule that minimizes overtime
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c. a model that forecasts sales for the next quarter
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d. a bar chart
e. a model that allocates your financial investments to achieve your financial goal
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a. descriptive
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b. prescriptive
c. predictive
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d. descriptive
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e. prescriptive

2. Transportation Planning. An analytics professional is asked to plan the shipment of a
product for the next quarter. She employs the following process:
Step 1. For each of the 12 distribution centers, she plots the quarterly demand for the
product over the last three years.




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Step 2. Based on the plot for each distribution center, she develops a forecasting model
to forecast demand for next quarter for each distribution center.
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Step 3. She takes the forecast for next quarter for each distribution center and inputs
those forecasts, along with the capacities of the company’s four factories and
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transportation rates from each factory to each distribution center, into an
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optimization model. The optimization model suggests a shipping plan that
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minimizes the cost of how to satisfy the forecasted demand from the company’s
four different factories to the distribution centers.
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Describe the type of analytics being utilized in each of the three steps outlined
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