Unemployment Analysis vs Graduan bergaji Rendah

Mungkin inilah sebabnya graduan sanggup bergaji rendah zaman milenia ini. Ramai tiada pekerjaan.  Mungkin kerana itu, walaupun bergaji rendah – syukur mereka ada kerja.

Hasil analisis dalam kelas Data Visualization and Interactive Design. Credit to Dir Ratna Adilla bt Ab Halim. FT04, Msc Business Intelligence and Analytics, UTM KL. Sumber data: Jabatan Statistik Malaysia (data.gov.my).

Data Monitoring from assurance perspectives.

  1. Data monitoring activities
    1. What is data monitoring?
      1. Define monitoring
        Monitoring is the verb of a monitor. Google defines it as observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time; keep under systematic review. It is also a listen and report on activities that are important to maintain regular surveillance over.

        Synonyms to observe, watch, track, keep an eye, keep under observation, keep watch on, surveil, record, note, oversee.
         

        From the business dictionary, it is the supervising activities in progress to ensure they are on-course and on-schedule in meeting the objectives and performance targets.

        From dictionary.com, monitoring is something related to the control system that serves to remind or give warning. It is important to arrange for observing, detecting, or recording so that the activities/operation is under control.
         
         
      2. Define data monitoring
        Interesting facts from https://goo.gl/qSv9Aa, they define Monitoring as the systematic process of collecting, analyzing and using the information to track the progress of any program toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. It is aligned with my thinking (please refer to my earlier post about monitoring + data temporal) when this article mentioned the relationship between monitoring activity and process (related to performance, formative evaluation?) Thus, the program indicator is relative to the progress of time (start, durations, and end).

        One more thing, they always relate the activity of monitoring with the evaluation. This is because, in evaluation – it is a must to provide evidence-based information that is credible, reliable and useful. Thus, through monitoring, we can provide these kinds of evidence that can lead to future findings, recommendations, and the lessons to inform future decision making.Evaluation has been defined as a systematic assessment of any activities’ performance. It focuses on expected and achieved accomplishments, examining the results chain for the whole process, its contextual factors, and causality (wow!, it means everything – from input, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts). They also highlight the determining of the relevance, impact, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability interventions as the result of the evaluation (for the time being, I don’t think I can cover it all since it is too wide).

      3. Define data monitoring activities.
        1. Examples of monitoring activities
  2. Assurance perspectives
    1. What is assurance?
    2. What the users want to be assured when they are doing the monitoring activities?
    3. Thus, from no 2 understanding – it is what we must cater when we are providing/presenting data for monitoring activities.
  3. In this case, let’s try focus and compare the assurance perspective from these five scenarios;
    1. Weather forecast
    2. Telco-data
    3. Trend analysis
    4. Project management monitoring (construction)
    5. Data Myra monitoring

References:

  • Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/monitoring.html
  • Dictionary.comQuite interesting – I will read more about monitoring and evaluating on these:
  • http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/331-why-is-monitoring-and-evaluation-important.html?next=332
  • Frankel, Nina and Anastasia Gage. 2007. “M&E Fundamentals: A Self Guided Minicourse.” U.S. Agency for International Development, MEASURE Evaluation, Interagency Gender Working Group, Washington DC.
  • Gage, Anastasia and Melissa Dunn. 2009. “Monitoring and Evaluating Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Mitigation Programs.” U.S. Agency for International Development, MEASURE Evaluation, Interagency Gender Working Group, Washington DC.

How is telecom industry benefiting their data?

How is telecom industry benefiting the big data?

Telecom industries are sitting on a gold mine, as they have plenty of data. But what they require is a proper digging and analysis of both structured and unstructured data to become a valuable asset to the industries.

Big Data from the perspectives of telecommunication industry

Through proper digging, they are able to get deeper insights into customers’:

  • Behaviour – combat fraud
  • Service usage patterns – marketing interest, marketing agility  (related to temporal data)
  • Preferences
  • Real time interests – real time customer insights (related to temporal data)

From Acker et al (2013), the telecom industry must experiment their own data. Demonstrating what they have on hand to see what kinds of connections and correlations it reveals, This process must be carried out iteratively to emerge the more efficient operations and more effective marking.

Source: Acker et al (2013)

References:

  1. http://bigdata-madesimple.com/11-interesting-big-data-case-studies-in-telecom/
  2. Ackers (2013) Benefiting from big data. A new approach for the telecom industry. published by Booz & Company.

Temporal Data and Business Intelligence

Temporal Data and Business Intelligence

According to Aigner et al (2007), time is an outstanding dimension. In popular physics, time is the fourth dimension. For ages, scientists have been thinking about meaning and implications of time. Understanding temporal relations enables us to learn from the past to predict, plan, and build the future. In the world of computerization, time is like an invisible presence. Business systems mostly operate in some sort of existential present tense and programmed into a unique timestamp, flags and update. Hence, it is no surprise that time is also a key concern in Visual Analytics, where the goal is to support the knowledge crystallization process with appropriate analytical and visual methods [1]. Visualizing time-oriented data, which is the focus of this paper, is not an easy business. Even though many approaches to this task have been published in recent years, most of them are specific to only a particular analysis problem. The reason why most methods are highly customized is simple: it is enormously difficult to consider all aspects involved when visualizing time-oriented data.

In current years, the temporal data is still valid and significant to emphasize the value of Business Intelligence (BI). The temporal concept enables business users to explore past business events to understand problems, see trends (monitor and review the data) and these activities can support the decision making as well. Thus, in many cases, users get point-in-time views of the business at defined times, such as the daily or month-end close. However, as business operations have become increasingly real-time in nature, the need for a continuous history that provides an ongoing, complete and accurate record of transactions and business performance has become paramount. Temporal — and in particular, bi-temporal — data is thus central to effective BI processes and should be a core part of any data warehouse or data mart (Devlin, BI Expert Panel)

Furthermore, the business context is growing in the complexity of both BI needs and the temporal characteristics of data. Decision making is increasingly real-time in nature. Predictive analytics extends our interest from the past and present into the future. Big data and the Internet of Things take us into a new world where the people who use data often don’t control its structure or content. Even the bi-temporal model, Johnston is reluctantly forced to admit, may turn out to be insufficient to carry all the temporal meaning that a user may wish to impart to or extract from business data. A tri-temporal model, with three-time axes, may eventually be required to make full sense of data. Then quoted from Johnson, the understanding for the interconnection between Bi, analytics and data temporal is vital if we are to navigate the expanding world of big data. Without such an understanding – Devlin believes the implementation of BI was destined to crash and burn. Therefore, it should be seen as mandatory preparation to revisit the theory and practice of temporal data.

An important issue that concerns all previous points is task-orientation. This means that Visual Analytics systems should automatically suggest and parameterize visual, analytical, and interaction methods based on the users’ task at hand. Recently, an interesting analysis of possible visualization tasks has been published in [3]. That list of tasks can be used as a basis for future research on task-oriented Visual Analytics. In that regard, perceptual issues must be further investigated. Empirical tests have to be conducted to judge which forms of presentation (2D or 3D, static or dynamic, etc.) are best suited for particular analysis tasks.

Aigner, W., Miksch, S., Müller, W., Schumann, H. and Tominski, C., 2007. Visualizing time-oriented data—a systematic view. Computers & Graphics31(3), pp.401-409.

Devlin, B. Temporal Data Reality: In BI, time is of the essence. https://goo.gl/VdEt7T

Representations of Data Monitoring – e.g Telecommunication data

Definition of telecommunication: 
Communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone or broadcasting. It is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnatic systems. Telecommunication occurs when the exchange of information between communication participants includes the use of technology. It is transmitted either electrically over physical media such as cable or electromagnatic radiation such as technology.

The value of data within telecommunication:
The most valuable telco data is an untapped source of customer information. Thus, the big companies nowadays turn telecom carriers since it has a valuable source of customer data (2017 study shows over than 300 brands in the US, UK and France finds than 67% of brands consider telecoms operators to be a better original source of data insights than Google, facebook, Apple and Samsung). Eventhough Google has 59% and Facebook has 52% remain the dominant brand partners for data insights and digital advertising, 26% of brands say they do currently partner with telcos that specialize in digital advertising. However, 48% of brands are not aware of telecoms operators’ ability to even offer these insights – and this is a good news for telco and it is our role to let them aware.

The potential that can be done with telco data:

  • Better original source of data insight
  • Underpin digital advertising – with high quality and compelling.

Special attention to Khairunnisa – please look at factor 2)better data analytics and 7)data was updated more regularly. The combination of these might bring us focus to on data temporal. See you on friday 11 August ’11 (Airis’ birthday)

Thanks to Ian Barker at https://goo.gl/fjQg3w and Ovum Survey https://goo.gl/vJbdnZ

 

Representation of data monitoring – temporal data

Temporal Data
synonym for time-oriented data, time-varying data, time-dependent data

Definition of temporal data:

Temporal data is data that varies over time (Jensen and Snodgrass, 1999)
A temporal data denotes the evolution of an object characteristic over a period of time (Daassi and Nigay, 2004)

Time dependent data is characterized by data elements being a function of time. In general, data takes the form of d = f(t), where data defined at discrete time stamps t, f is functions of time (Muller and Schumann, 2003)

Time series data is characterized by data elements being a function of time. In general, this data takes the following form, d = yt and y = f(t)

Key references for Data Temporal

  • Noah, S., Yaakob, S., & Shahar, S. (2009). Application of information visualization techniques in representing patients’ temporal personal history data. Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice, 168-179.
  • [Daassi et al., 2004] Chaouki Daassi, Laurence Nigay, and Marie-Christine Fauvet. Visualization Process of Temporal Data, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3180, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2004.
  • [Jensen and Snodgrass, 1999] Christian S. Jensen and Richard T. Snodgrass. Temporal Data Management, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 11:36-44, 1999.
  • [Müller and Schumann, 2003] W. Müller and H. S. Schumann. Visualization Methods for Time-dependent Data – an Overview, In Proceedings of Winter Simulation 2003, New Orleans, USA, 2003
  • [Weber et al., 2001] Marc Weber, Marc Alexa, and Wolfgang Müller. Visualizing Time-Series on Spirals, In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2001 (InfoVis 2001), p. 7-14, October 2001.

 

Representation of Data Monitoring – Part 2: How

  1. Timeline:
    Line drawn on a suitable scale (days, month, years, centuries) on which key historical, planned or projected events and perionds marked in the sequence of their occurence (an incident or event; the fract or frequency of something happening, the fact of something existing or being found in a place or under a particular set of conditions) – this bring me to temporal data.

Representation of Data Monitoring – Part 1: Definitions

Presenting Data for Monitoring Activities – Part 1: Definitions

What is monitoring? (Definition of monitoring):
The act of carrying out planned observations, measurements, etc in order to collect, review and use information for a stated goal (to assess a particular situation) from – slideplayer.com/slide/7270385

Observer and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time – keep under systematic review; maintain regular surveillance over; listen to and report on. From google definition

Supervising activities in progress to ensure they are on-course and on schedule in meeting the objectives and performance targets. From business dictionary.

Monitoring is one activity sub under management. Because within management, we also do planning, control, monitoring and reviewing any of the activities.

Where does the monitoring happen? 
In the organization – dashboard – business performance
In the industries – manufacturing process in the assembly line
In the project management – construction, physical activities.
In the security – airport, library, supermarket.

Definition of MYRA monitoring:
The act of carrying out planned observations or measurements related to the occurence changes of University KPIs (e.g. grants, publications and awards) in order to collect and analyse information needed to achieve stated KPT-KPI goals.