Venture Investments- DETAILS, MAP, TIMELINE

The information is part of a data visualization discussion analyzing 11 years of investments; this is part of Enterprise Changemakers blog , the interactive content is based on a client-side, light-database from MIT. Allowing business decisions and stragegy-making to be quickly informed by easily filtering and sorting through an otherwise dizzying dataset is an asset any global business can take advantage of.

Select one or more Categories, Investment Periods, and/or Financial Institutions, and toggle between the DETAIL, MAP, and TIMELINE views to view your preferences on the fly. You can also search keywords that will match various categories stored in the database records. If you're interested, check out the complementary interactive graph showing total category investments over time.

You can distribute the power of easily digestible, interactive, customizable data on any project, in real-time. Your team can sort, organize, and view linked data, mapped geographically & temporally, and aggregated by category. There are a million ways to use this. It would be very powerful for a marketing/advertising team to refine target groups (categories=target group) with a network graph (see Gephi example) of potential customers together with spending habits, behavioral characteristics, region, time, etc. Furthermore, this type of visualization can also improve COLLABORATION, linking the information your transnational team is using; see the Collaborative Library for more on this type of application.