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SAP Lumira Essentials

SAP Lumira Essentials

By : Dmitry Anoshin
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SAP Lumira Essentials

SAP Lumira Essentials

3.5 (6)
By: Dmitry Anoshin

Overview of this book

SAP Lumira allows you to combine data from multiple sources into a single view and create engaging visualizations quickly and easily. It is a reporting platform that helps users access data and independently perform analysis. With the increasing interest in data discovery, self-service BI, and visualization around the world, tools like SAP Lumira help to eliminate the complexities of analyzing and discovering data. Learn data discovery techniques, build amazing visualizations, create fantastic stories, and share your visualizations through an electronic medium with one of the most powerful tools around—SAP Lumira. You will begin with an overview of the SAP Lumira family of products. You will then go through various data discovery techniques using real-world scenarios of an online e-commerce retailer through detailed recipes on the installation, administration, and customization of SAP Lumira. Next, you will work with data, starting from acquiring data from various data sources, then preparing and visualizing it using the rich functionality of SAP Lumira. Finally, you will present data via a data story or infographic and publish it across your organization or on the World Wide Web.
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Chapter 4. Visualizing Data and Telling Stories with It

"The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story."

Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

In the previous chapters, you learned how to connect and prepare data for data discovery purposes. This chapter is a core chapter because you will learn what we can actually do with our data. In order to find our data business insights in vast amounts of data, we should slice and dice our data. It is not a secret that vision is our dominant sense. As a result, it is much easier to find answers to a business question in a massive pile of data when you visualize it.

SAP Lumira offers us a rich set of chart types. This can help to make our raw data more sensible and useful, which will help us to understand trends, find outages, and make better decisions faster. In addition, we can tell a story based on our data. This gives us advantages and helps other people figure out what the data actually wants to tell us.

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