Poolytics

Overview

The opportunities are truly endless for data visualization: use it for your most recent office pool game and then your next tricky business problem!

Business case

Using analytics to make smart decisions

Data visualization is a rapidly growing space, due to its storytelling ability. Having a product that can aggregate data sources and paint a picture quickly and concisely is crucial for business intelligence reporting. Utilizing real-time data, businesses will be able to adapt and forecast decisions around strategy proactively and more effectively. Further, clear data visualization that quickly communicates on something like energy usage could have a long-term impact on personal efficiencies and create major aggregate gains simply by creating awareness.

The experiment

Real-time data to track performance

As a new pool game begins, each player logs in and begins tracking their performance. The application uses open-source visualization libraries to track statistics in real-time as the pool game is being played. Players can log wins and losses, who breaks and how games are won. We can then visualize player performance by all sorts of statistics, compare player-to-player match-ups and even see how each players compares across all players throughout the history of the business.