1. Using Mobile Business Analytics to Visualize Library Data
Let the Data Talk – ALA Annual, June 24, 2012
Rachel Besara
Assessment Librarian
Florida State University Libraries

2. What are business intelligence/analytics apps?
Roambi
What are business intelligence/analytics apps?
One of the first mobile BI apps
Low cost
Sample reports
Various ways to organize & present your data
Best practices information
Example spreadsheets
MicroStrategy
QlikView

3. Data Overload
I’m an assessment librarian gathering, compiling, interpreting, reporting & explaining this kind of information is my job…
Easy to manipulate. Hard to ‘read’ – it’s hard to ‘see’. Hard to storytell. Hard to advocate. Limited accessibility.

4. Traditional Static Reports
Static (not interactive) – when I create this I have to completely anticipate my audience’s needs/desires (and I might miss the mark)
Linear (progression of data starts and ends where the writer thinks it should)
Didactic (telling rather than exploring) – You might apply it – and there is discovery within the structure I created – but a lot of additional work would have to be done before

5. Instant, Visual, Interactive Data
Instantly Visualize, Interact & Compare

6. Let me show you…

7. Could a BI app be the right tool?
Audience loves quantitative data
flexibility & interaction in data storytelling
“choose your own adventure” for advocacy or brainstorming

8. Florida State University Libraries
Thank you!
Rachel Besara
Assessment Librarian
Florida State University Libraries