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Research + Entrepreneurship
= Innovation
Professor Mikael Jern InfoVis and Geovisual Analytics
http://ncva.itn.liu.se
NCVA carries out research - Visualization och Storytelling for statistics – while NComVA became the commercial part –
acquired by Qlik in May 2013
Mountain of numbers turned into Interactive pictures
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From research to top industry ”33-list” in 3 years
”We know that NComVA is the most innovative technical company with Statistics
Visualization and now accepted for the 33-list is a proof that others see us and that we
have changed the rules within our branch says Patrik Lundblad innovation chief at NComVA”
“We are the Rock stars in statistics”
Let’s start from the beginning at Lund University 1971-1979
Professor
Helmuth Hertz
The world’s first ink jet plotter
controlled by software is developed
Mikael Jern 25 years old
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The World’s first Colour Raster Pictures
My Visualization Software creates the
World’s first Colour Raster Images
World’s first commercial Ink Jet Plotter from Applicon Boston 1979-1981
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Raster Visualization Software from UNIRAS 1982-1999
120 employees 140 million turnover
1999, return to Research as Professor at Linkoping University
My PhD students Quan, Tobias, Sara,
Patrik, Jimmy and me in the background
• Involved in EC project 1999-2005. I control 15 million Skr.;
• 5 selected PhD students and several research engineers are engaged;
• I teach Information Visualisation at master level;
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EC Financed Projects 1999-2005 Flooding River Arno Firenze
Road Temperature Mobile Communication Networks
Exploring the best tooth brush
NCVA/LiU is established 2007 with 10 million Skr. in financial support
• National Center Visual Analytics
• Focus on applied research in collaboration with experience of knowledge
within both government and business – creating interesting synergies;
• Interactive Visualization of BIG regional statistical data;
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2007: We start our research in Statistical Visualization
Collaboration with SCB – Has data och expertise
NCVA collaborates with two Swedish cities….
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Geovisual Analytics toolkit for customizing prototypes
The BIG commercial jump with OECD 2008-2009
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“Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge"
Internationell statistik konferens i Stockholm 26-28 maj, 2008
organiserad av SCB och OECD
It is a wonderful new animation service that OECD provides with the Linköping made Flash
visualisation and shows the necessity for enjoying this beauty of statistics in the future.
Hans Rosling
More than10,000 visitors
in the first week
OECD announcing
collaboration with at
their web site
eXplorer now becomes a
commercial trademark
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The BIG commercial jump with OECD 2008-2009
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The BIG commercial jump with OECD 2008-2009
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The code of practice for European statistics with regard to dissemination,
states that “European Statistics should be presented in a clear and understandable
form, disseminated in a suitable and convenient manner, available and accessible
on an impartial basis with supporting metadata and guidance”.
This is a principle of accessibility and clarity. To comply with this,
OECD in collaboration with NCVA have developed the interactive
Web report “Regions-at-a-Glance” presenting statistical indicators ranging
from economic, social, demographic and environmental fields for more than
2000 local OECD regions from all over the world
http://www.oecd.org/regional/regionsataglance.
The result represents an innovative solution from the statistical point of view,
and offers a dynamic and interactive method for the visualization of
spatio-temporal regional data, and the ability to link metatext to such a model.
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The BIG commercial jump with OECD 2008-2009
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• Maintain a commercial business within the university?
Owner responsibility, what happens if a researcher leave regarding support
etc.?
• In a Swedish university, the right to technology and product remains
with the developer - However if you plan to:
sell your technology into a foreign company – important to have your
ownership documented from the university;
• NCVA continues with research while NComVA does development,
support and commercialization;
Spinoff NComVA – May 2010
research
commercial
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Spinoff NComVA – May 2010
research
commercial
LEAD
NComVA is registered and becomes a LEAD coached company focusing
on Statistical Visualization with integrated Storytelling
Our Strategy for a Successful Business
• Market world leader in Statistical Visualization with
integrated Storytelling;
• We see a strong growing interest for visualization in
the statistical market;
• Our Success with OECD and SCB;
• We sell Products and not Consulting;
• OECD and a small municipality uses the same
visualization and storytelling technology;
• Automatic and user friendly installation;
• Marketing through our customers web site –
Customers enjoy presenting our products
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“Customizable eXplorer” – automatic generation of products
NComVA offers Statistics eXplorer applications
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World-leading Interactive Visualisation
Coordinated and linked Views
World-leading Interactive Visualisation
Manage BIG statistical data
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"The holy grail of information visualization is to
make the insights stand out from otherwise
chaotic and noisy data."
Find patterns, outliers
and trends
Colour handling with Perception technique
Net Migration
Bubble Plot with 5 Dim (X, Y, Colour, Size, Time)
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Coordinated Scatter Matrix with the Bubble Plot
Parallel Coordinates for Multivariate Data
China
Min
Sweden
Niger Max
age 0-14 age 15-64 age 65+ life expectancy fertility rate
Niger
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Interactive visualization of Big Statistical Data
Overview & Details – 8,000 Italian municipalities “age 65+”
Flowmap Visualization showing Migration
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World-leading Storytelling
World eXplorer analytical storytelling loop – A Story with snapshots and metadata
is created in the Story Editor – Story is saved and can be shared with colleagues to reach
consensus – The Story can be integrated into eXplorer (se right panel) and accessed by
the public. The Story with embedded data, snapshots and metadata can also be imported
by the Publisher as the foundation for Vislet creation
World-leading Storytelling
The storytelling tools integrate the geovisual analytics process using our Story Editor,
and through collaborating created stories, a shared understanding is developed with other
users. After a consensus has been reached, the results can then be published. The
snapshot mechanism helps the author of a story to highlight data views of particular
interest and subsequently guide others to significant visual discoveries. This is an example
of applying the Snapshot mechanism in our Europe eXplorer with a region “Inner London
Snapshot” based on “ highlighting elderly people representing only 10%
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Storytelling – 8 world snapshots “ageing population”
Import-explore-insight-snapshots-Publisher-HTML-Web page
From importing data, exploring and creating a story, to publishing and
finally embedding the HTML code based on Flash into a web page or blog
Statistics Publisher is the server tool that imports a story and generates the HTML code
(Flash or HTML5) that represents the Vislet. First, the user selects visual representations for
the Vislet e.g. map, scatter plot, parallel axes, table lens, time graph. Publisher generates the
HTML code. This code is manually copied and embedded into a web page. The Vislet is then
opened in the user’s Web browser and dynamically communicate the story. The Publisher
server maintains the Vislet flash file . The Vislet runs locally in the client’s Web Browser.
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“Regions-at-a-Glance” at OECD – Vislets are applied
This interactive report is based on interactive “Vislets”, produced from Stories in OECD
eXplorer, converted into HTML code by Statistics Publisher” and then embedded into this
interactive visualization report “Regions-at-a-Glance”. A dynamic report extends a static
report with an interactive statistics experience for the reader. The graphs are interactive
allowing the user to change indicators or explore how data changes over time using animation.
The OECD analysts creates snapshots for the regions at a glance data dividing them into
different chapters and sections within the chapters. From these snapshots the visualizations
were chosen and Vislets were created.
http://rag.oecd.org/
“Regions-at-a-Glance” at OECD – Vislets are applied
http://rag.oecd.org/
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Interactive Report at
http://noi-italia.istat.it/
Not only Visualization – But also manage Big Data
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2011: NComVA is “Rookie-of-the-Year” – 100,000kr
Strategic Customers
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Customers
Strategy and Mission - NComVA
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NComVA - The Expert Visualization Team
Tobias Åström, Quan Hu, Christoffer Hedberg, Patrik Lundblad, Mikael Jern, Miralem Dreg
2012: We now also apply the latest HTML5/Javascript
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• VINNOVA Forska & Väx and Tillväxtverket provides research
funding 500,000 kr + 650,000 Skr;
• QlikTech selects NComVA as a strategic technology
partner for professional interactive data visualization with
integrated storytelling;
2012: We enter the ”Visual Business Intelligence” market
2012: We enter the ”Visual Business Intelligence” market
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Sales Management Data for a Swedish Company
Applied Dynamic Filter – only Stockholm sales are shown
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2013 - From research to the top ”33-list” – “Rock stars in statistics”
Yesterday, for the sixth time, the prestigious
finals of this year's 33-List held at the Munich
brewery in Stockholm. Off the record number
of 284 nominees, it would now be selected
the 33 hottest technology start-ups
companies in Sweden. 33 list is appointed
jointly by new technologies and business world
every year in order to find out which of
today's technology start-ups have the potential
to become tomorrow's stock market giants.
NComVA develops web-based interactive data
visualization with integrated storytelling for
analyzing and presenting large amounts of
statistics and company data. They are now 8
people and has a turnover of SEK 8 million Skr.
in 2012.
• The acquisition takes place on May 2nd 2013 – exactly 3 years after the
start 2010 (a promise made to my partners);
2013 May: QlikTech acquires NComVA
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Qlik announces its new visualization in 2014 with our Tools
Gartner Group and its Magic Quadrant about Qlik
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms
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Explanations for our Success ..
• World leading technology and experience
• OECD och Eurostat ”credibility”
• Strong growing statistical market
• We sell products and not consulting
• OECD and a small municipality uses the same
visualization and storytelling technology
• Automatic and user friendly installation
• Marketing through our customers web site and
their presentations – Customers enjoy
demonstrating our products
Visit our NCVA Web site
http://ncva.itn.liu.se
Statistical Visualization from the World to a
small Swedish community “age group 65+”
