The explosion of online information with the recent advent of digital technology in information processing, information storing, information sharing, natural language processing, and text mining techniques has enabled stock investors to uncover market movement and volatility from heterogeneous...

Background If retailers and brand manufacturers of food succeed in presenting their products at the point of sale, quickly generating a high level of attention, the likelihood of a purchase is significantly increased. Particularly, in recent years, they have been relying on the megatrend of...

This dissertation presents the design, development and evaluation of the Social Set Visualizer, an innovative Visual Analytics software tool, that expands upon a novel set-based approach to Big Social Data Analytics for large-scale datasets from social media platforms such as Facebook. Over the...

Importance of sustainable consumption. Consumers associate sustainable products with ecological and regional production including a high credibility. In order to take advantage of this trend manufacturers of sustainable foods must communicate the sustainability of their products via packaging...

Understanding how consumers perceive brands is at the core of effective brand management. In this paper, we present the Brand Visual Elicitation Platform (B-VEP), an electronic tool we developed that allows consumers to create online collages of images that represent how they view a brand....

Why Numbers Are Not Enough -- Why Do We See so Many Bar Charts? -- What Charts You Should Know and Love (and Sometimes Loathe) -- How to Get People to Use Charts and Dashboards -- Why Collaboration Is Critical -- How Dashboards and Interactivity Lead to Better Insights -- Why Knowing Your...

Geschäftsmodell-Modellierungssprachen (BMMLs) sind ein wichtiger Ansatz um die Generierung von Geschäftsmodellideen zu unterstützen. Die Beiträge dieser Dissertation befassen sich mit fünf Limitationen, die das zugehörige Forschungsfeld charakterisieren: Die mangelnde Konsolidierung,...

One of the main principles to build portfolios of financial assets is to achieve stable long-term performance and avoid large drawdowns. This article describes how a method of Machine Learning, Kohonen's Self-Organising Maps (SOM), can be applied to visualise risk and to build robust portfolios...

Visualization is not only an important part of experimental data analysis process but also an efficient tool for transfer of acquired knowledge in multiple areas including, but not restricted to, ICT, general scientific discussion, innovation, data mining, decision support systems as well as...

In this paper authors have tried to highlight some new areas of patent analysis by using visualizing and neural network based approaches. This paper creates patent map that represents all technological categories and a method to locate patent data of electrical energy sector. This mapping...

Visualization of data envelopment analysis (DEA) problems can be a very informative step in order to get insight into the problems and their characteristics. Through the various visualization methods, one can literally look at the DEA problem and the related data from different perspectives....

Today's highly competitive business world requires that managers be able to make fast and accurate strategic decisions, as well as learn to adapt to new strategic challenges. This necessity calls for a deep experience and a dynamic understanding of strategic management. The trait of dynamic...

Discover work styles : building interpersonal relationships through visual and tangible approaches -- Understand core beliefs : creating visuals helps in understanding values and biases -- Establish trust : sharing stories using rich and lean media -- Assess information : learning from...

"Encyclopedia of Design Thinking Tools explains the most important tools and methods over the Design Thinking cycle. Based on the largest international survey on the use of Design Thinking Tools and Methods, the most popular methods are described on four pages each, by an expert from the Design...