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@philsimon
Phil Simon Thought Leader, Technology
Expert, & Author
Insight Address
“The Visual Organization: Data Visualization,
Big Data, & the Quest for Better Decisions”
“The Visual Organization”
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Hi. I’m Phil.
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Who am I?
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• Award-winning author of six
books, most recently The
Visual Organization
• Speaker, consultant, and
technology expert
• Huge Breaking Bad fan (more
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Netflix Stats
• Roughly 40M customers
• Nearly $20B market cap
• Responsible for nearly one-
third of all US weeknight
Internet traffic
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Data as of April 16, 2014
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Netflix Facts
• Single biggest AWS customer
– 2012 Christmas day outage
• In September of 2013, Netflix became the first
non-TV network to win an Emmy for House of
Cards
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The Netflix Data Credo - 1
• Data should be accessible,
easy to discover, and easy to
process for everyone.
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Source: Netflix - tinyurl.com/tvo-netflix
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Computers and Algorithms only get
you so far…
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Augmenting Existing Data
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• Comedies
• Dramas
• Westerns
• Documentaries
Move Far Beyond Simple Genres
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77,000 Subgenres of Movies
• Dark Suspenseful Sci-Fi Horror Movies
• Gritty Suspenseful Revenge Westerns
• Romantic Indian Crime Dramas
• Evil Kid Horror Movies
• Visually-Striking Goofy Action & Adventure
• Violent Suspenseful Action & Adventure from the 1980s
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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The Netflix Data Credo - 2
• The longer you take to find
the data, the less valuable
it becomes.
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Example
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Stats
50,000 Netflix subscribers
watched all 13 episodes of
Season 4 of Breaking Bad the
day before Season 5 premiered.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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The Netflix Data Credo - 3
• Whether a dataset is large
or small, being able to
visualize it makes it easier
to explain.
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What does Netflix know about each of its
40M streaming customers?
• What they watch
• When they watch
• The device on which they’re watching
• When they pause and/or resume watching
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• He with the most data doesn’t win.
• In an era of Big Data, success hinges on what
an organization does with that information.
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Characteristics of a Visual Organization
• Eschew “set it and forget it”
• Encourage data exploration and discovery
• Augment creativity with troves of relevant information
• Buy and build new tools as necessary
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5 Lessons from the Book
• Big Data can augment and refine creativity
• Experimentation is paramount
• Walk before you run
• Avoid the “quarterly visualization mentality”
• All data is not required to begin @philsimon 24
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Connect with me
www.philsimon.com
@philsimon
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Questions
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