In this engagement Uncharted worked with a startup to visualize 5 TB of pitch-level data and video in professional baseball. We designed and developed a suite of purpose-specific visualization systems that allow players, coaches and managers to analyze both detailed pitch-by-pitch outcomes and video footage. Seamless workflow between these representations enables users to discover minute mechanical adjustments that vastly improve player performance. At product launch, the press reported that “experts were seen gawking” and singled out the visualizations as “drool-worthy.” The product achieved 271% market penetration over forecast in the first year, with pro team adoption correlating strongly with deep playoff runs.
Challenge
Strategic Analysis
Developing strategies for action requires deep understanding of complex factors and other actors at play in volumes of dynamic, multi-dimensional data. Visual insight ensures understanding of the situation is fully formed, more easily communicated, and better supported by the evidence at hand.
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Instant Market Insights for a Major Financial Data Vendor
As part of a comprehensive platform advancement for a leading client, Uncharted created an iconic map of the financial markets that provides high-level, intermediate and detailed summaries of activity. A highly effective technique to organize and aggregate information helps traders and portfolio managers understand overall activity and swiftly act on individual stocks, commodities and portfolios in just a few taps. This intuitive workflow, suited for both desktop and mobile, earned significant praise in the client’s first mobile app. Reviewers in particular liked the ability to seamlessly move back and forth between market overviews and individual stocks or news stories.
This is a new level of market overview. I am quickly informed on exactly what I need. The system is instantly usable. - Equities Trader
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Live Trade Landscape for a Leading Exchange
In this system designed for a leading ECN, Uncharted renders an intuitive, integrated view of supply and demand (buy and sell orders), transaction history (trades), and analytics (e.g. volume distributions and VWAP), in real time in a browser. Giving visual form to the financial market enables a trader to see developments more quickly, gaining competitive advantage. This innovative visualization design earns praise in David Leinweber’s book Nerds on Wall Street.
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"What If" Global Risk Forecast for BHP Billiton
This tool for senior and executive management won Energy Risk magazine’s prestigious “Innovation of the Year.” Asset class by term structure is shown on the floor, while one wall provides a geographic roll-up and the other shows financial metrics. BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest resources companies, uses a diversified portfolio strategy to manage assets. Uncharted’s enterprise risk visualizations create and assess what-if scenarios such as potential acquisitions and their impact on short-term risk.
You can’t access and analyze all the variants unless you use a simulation tool like this. - CEO
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Improved Portfolio Monitoring, Analysis and Communication
Managing a portfolio presents endless opportunities for improved success, from deep analysis of underlying markets, creating predictive models, combining a wide variety of data sources, monitoring securities in real time, to communicating with multiple stakeholders. In our over 25 years of experience in the field, interactive visual analysis of structured financial products has proven to better reveal real-time market opportunities, flag historic anomalies, facilitate interactive what-if risk analysis and engage clients with insights.