{"id":6951,"date":"2012-05-09T05:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/index.php\/post\/visualizing-data-3d-lego\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:01:58","slug":"visualizing-data-3d-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/visualizing-data-3d-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Data in 3D with Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [DocumentBodyStart:4aa8b16f-c011-4495-9310-3e2e684bd155] --><\/p>\n<div class=\"jive-rendered-content\">\n<p>A few weeks ago my colleague <a class=\"jive-link-profile-small\" href=\"http:\/\/community.qlikview.com\/people\/jbe\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">Jens Boivie<\/a> (sales executive training in the Nordics) sent me a link to this Fast Company article, \u201c<a class=\"jive-link-external-small\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1669468\/how-gm-saved-1000000-using-legos-as-a-data-viz-tool\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">How GM Is Saving Cash Using Legos as a Data Visualization Tool<\/a>.\u201d It stuck with me ever since so I had to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:4aa8b16f-c011-4495-9310-3e2e684bd155] --><\/p>\n<div class=\"jive-rendered-content\">\n<p>A few weeks ago my colleague <a class=\"jive-link-profile-small\" href=\"http:\/\/community.qlikview.com\/people\/jbe\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">Jens Boivie<\/a> (sales executive training in the Nordics) sent me a link to this Fast Company article, \u201c<a class=\"jive-link-external-small\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1669468\/how-gm-saved-1000000-using-legos-as-a-data-viz-tool\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">How GM Is Saving Cash Using Legos as a Data Visualization Tool<\/a>.\u201d It stuck with me ever since so I had to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1669468\/how-gm-saved-1000000-using-legos-as-a-data-viz-tool\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jive-image-thumbnail jive-image\" src=\"http:\/\/community.qlikview.com\/servlet\/JiveServlet\/downloadImage\/38-2590-13935\/450-337\/GM+Uses+Lego+to+Track+Problem+Resolution.png\" alt=\"GM Uses Lego to Track Problem Resolution.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>People choose tools that are easy and fun. <\/strong>It&#8217;s pretty basic. We like to feel happy! According to this Fast Company article, Tim Herrick, global chief engineer at GM, uses Lego pieces with his organization to track problem resolution; various colors denote the area of the vehicle and the block size denotes the severity of the problem. Likewise, Dennis Pastor, executive director of performance excellence at WellStar Health Systems, uses Lego bricks with his organization \u2014 they track on-time starts at the doctor\u2019s office and manage physician-payee relationships, which has led to a series of fixes projected to save the company $1 million USD. What could be easier and more fun that using that mainstay of childhood \u2014 Lego \u2014 at work!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humans think in 3D. <\/strong>This is something that was on my mind every day when I was an independent industry analyst covering workplace use of immersive technologies (<a class=\"jive-link-external-small\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkbalm.com\/reports\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">you can find my old ThinkBalm analyst reports and videos here<\/a>). By 3D I don\u2019t mean \u201cmade to look as if slightly popped up from the page.\u201d I mean utilizing three dimensions of space: an X, Y, and Z axis \u2014 either physically, as in the case of GM and WellStar using Lego, or virtually, as in immersive serious games and virtual worlds. Pastor said, \u201cWe came to the conclusion that our processes were three dimensional but our reports were only two dimensional. We needed to see them 3D . . .\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>3D is natural for Business Discovery. <\/strong>There are many ways Business Discovery can become more three-dimensional to take fuller advantage of the capabilities of the human mind. For example, imagine integrating QlikView with motion sensing input devices like Microsoft Kinect, enabling users to interact with apps by moving their bodies around in physical space . . . literally <em>feeling<\/em> the data. (See the blog post and video, \u201c<a class=\"jive-link-blog-small\" href=\"http:\/\/community.qlikview.com\/blogs\/theqlikviewblog\/2012\/04\/12\/qlikview-s-simplicity-opens-the-door-to-innovation\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">QlikView\u2019s Simplicity Opens the Door to Innovation<\/a>.\u201d) Imagine QlikView apps displayed on multiple screens on the walls of factory or warroom, literally surrounding decision makers with data, providing an ever-present status indicator and opportunity for instantaneous exploration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You think I\u2019m out to lunch with this 3D stuff? Bah, this is nothing! Check out the blog post, \u201c<a class=\"jive-link-blog-small\" href=\"http:\/\/community.qlikview.com\/blogs\/theqlikviewblog\/2011\/11\/30\/data-visualization-in-4d-sculpture-and-a-musical-score\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer ugc\">Data Visualization in 4D: Sculpture and a Musical Score<\/a>.\u201d <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/community.qlikview.com\/4.5.5\/images\/emoticons\/happy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"16px\" height=\"16px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:4aa8b16f-c011-4495-9310-3e2e684bd155] --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago my colleague Jens Boivie (sales executive training in the Nordics) sent me a link to this Fast Company article, \u201cHow GM Is Saving Cash Using Legos as a Data Visualization Tool.\u201d It stuck with me ever since so I had to share it with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-best-practices","7":"category-data-visualization","8":"category-unstructured-data"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}