The Solution

Looi Consulting developed an approach that enables understanding the data at a glance: Country Indicator Visualization. This tool generates reports filtered by selecting a group of countries, one category of indicators with one specific indicator, one breakdown and several options within the breakdown and one specific year. The information is presented first at an aggregated level and then is broken down into categories. Even the categories can be broke down to subcategories and the categories’ and subcategories’ panels can be collapsible to present less or more information simultaneously. However, this could make the visualization to look busy and complex. Thus, an alternative approach is to add even more interactivity to the visualization. For example, if a user clicks on “Male” on the Occupation Rate, the values of the rings or donuts for Region, Educational Level and Age will be updated to reflect that the user is interested in the Occupation Rates for Males by region educational level and age. Similarly, clicking on a ring on the other subcategories will update the other values accordingly. Hence, this type of visualization can, in fact, become an interactive infographic that allows exploring all combinations of the data easily and effectively.

Our solution approach doesn’t begin or end with preconceived notions; we strive to understand the underlying problem, leading us to optimal outcomes.

Timeline

Looi Consulting performed a feasibility and research study followed by several months of prototype development and productization of the solution using agile development methodologies.