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Process Logix Inc.
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19 Cannon RdQUISPAMSIS, New Brunswick
E2E 3T9
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We help customers design and document their process based management systems including that systems:
- Framework,
- System archecture, including:
- Policy Documents
- Procedure Documents
- Work Instruction Documents,
including the provision of all needed advice and support to the customers staff for them to competently document processes to achieve objectives.
Where contracted we will collect information and data then produce - Policies, Procedures and Work instructions.
We help customers achieve their registration needs for Quality, Environmental and Safety Management Systems to meet
- ISO 9001 Quality Management System,
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and
- ISO 18001 Safety Management System and any CSA standard through:
- Design;
- Documentation;
- Consulting;
- Audits;
- GAP Analysis;
- Critical Review of Documents (Internal and supplier)
We provide Process, Quality, Environmental, and Safety Management Training including Auditor Training.
We evaluate Supplier's for their ability to satisfy product and service quality and provide ongoing support through Audits, Monitoring, Control, Inspection, expediting.
Broker: Machining, Metal Fabrication - Your best option to get the best value from your purchasing dollar.
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For a list of Clients and References contact us.Testimonial:
Process Logix Inc has provided essential services to our company that has allowed us to operate a process centered organization faster than if we had built this expertise in house...I can confidently recommend Process Logix Inc as a solid and reliable supplier and expert in their field. (Dan Marino - Director Strategic Management - JD Irving, Limited Woodlands & Sawmill Divisions)I would recommend Process Logix Inc to work with any company setting up an environmental management system to meet the requirements of ISO 14001. (Peter Savage - EMS Coordinator Irving Paper)
Mr. Cameron (President of process Logix Inc) is a quality professional with extensive experience in Quality Assurance...When conducting our internal audits he has done so in a timely manner, maintained a flexible schedule to meet the needs of our supervision and employees. The audits are comprehensive, reports with findings returned quickly and corrective action recommendations were forwarded when appropriate. (Mike Doherty - Superintendent quality - Irving Pulp & Paper)
Mr.Cameron was the best Auditor and Audit Manager I ever met. He was a team player and in support of his management activity wrote Plans, Manuals, procedures and Training programs. (Donald Kerr -Irving Shipbuilding Inc)
Don Cameron enjoys auditing with a rare passion and always strives to reduce cost and add value to existing procedures... I would highly recommend Don Cameron to any company seeking to establish or improve existing quality management system / their processes. (Don Bastarache - Clow Canada)
Mr Cameron is a highly qualified individual with experience in consulting clients on the ISO 9001 standard and certification process. He is very knowledgeable, resourceful, and communicative in all aspects... Mr Cameron is able to assist with any complex project(s) through to completion, on time and within budget for any type of business. (Barbera Kennedy - Source Atlantic)
In all areas of his work, Don excelled. He is a thorough, detailed analyst who asks the "tough questions" that businesses need to answer. I wholeheartedly recommend him for any similar work your organization may have planned. (John Wishart, Managing Editor, The Daily Gleaner)
I had the pleasure of working with Mr. Cameron when we engaged him to assist our department with the creation, formal documentation and alignment of our business processes, including but not limited to: flow charts, work instructions, and process maps. He delivered a sound product on time, of superb quality, and was always available to discuss options when required. My team and I enjoyed working alongside Mr. Cameron, and I would recommend his process focused abilities without reservation or hesitation. Top qualities: Expert, On Time, High Integrity. Brian Boucher JD Irving, Limited
Don brings a sound knowledge of process engineering to any project team. He fit in well with our team and added value by coaching others to leverage his knowledge. Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity. Wayne Williams - BNI
Donald brought excellent subject knowlege, combined with practical, customized, professional, process oriented solutions, aligned to our business requirements, over a number of years.Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity. Brian Stackhouse - Irving Tissue Company
Don was contracted to help us develop new standards for process improvement documentation as well as work with our various Lean-Sigma improvement teams to complete final documentation of flow-charts, work instructions and related supporting documents. He also helped us develop a central data-base to index and house this work so it could be shared across the organization. Don's work was always very thorough with exceptional quality. He has helped us in our Sawmills and Woodlands Divisions as well as the Shipbuilding Division and central head-office. This was important work Don assisted us with and we would definitely make futher use of his services as the needs arise. Top qualities: Expert, On Time, High Integrity. Tim McEwen - JD Irving, Limited
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For a list of Clients and References contact us.Testimonial:
Process Logix Inc has provided essential services to our company that has allowed us to operate a process centered organization faster than if we had built this expertise in house...I can confidently recommend Process Logix Inc as a solid and reliable supplier and expert in their field. (Dan Marino - Director Strategic Management - JD Irving, Limited Woodlands & Sawmill Divisions)I would recommend Process Logix Inc to work with any company setting up an environmental management system to meet the requirements of ISO 14001. (Peter Savage - EMS Coordinator Irving Paper)
Mr. Cameron (President of process Logix Inc) is a quality professional with extensive experience in Quality Assurance...When conducting our internal audits he has done so in a timely manner, maintained a flexible schedule to meet the needs of our supervision and employees. The audits are comprehensive, reports with findings returned quickly and corrective action recommendations were forwarded when appropriate. (Mike Doherty - Superintendent quality - Irving Pulp & Paper)
Mr.Cameron was the best Auditor and Audit Manager I ever met. He was a team player and in support of his management activity wrote Plans, Manuals, procedures and Training programs. (Donald Kerr -Irving Shipbuilding Inc)
Don Cameron enjoys auditing with a rare passion and always strives to reduce cost and add value to existing procedures... I would highly recommend Don Cameron to any company seeking to establish or improve existing quality management system / their processes. (Don Bastarache - Clow Canada)
Mr Cameron is a highly qualified individual with experience in consulting clients on the ISO 9001 standard and certification process. He is very knowledgeable, resourceful, and communicative in all aspects... Mr Cameron is able to assist with any complex project(s) through to completion, on time and within budget for any type of business. (Barbera Kennedy - Source Atlantic)
In all areas of his work, Don excelled. He is a thorough, detailed analyst who asks the "tough questions" that businesses need to answer. I wholeheartedly recommend him for any similar work your organization may have planned. (John Wishart, Managing Editor, The Daily Gleaner)
I had the pleasure of working with Mr. Cameron when we engaged him to assist our department with the creation, formal documentation and alignment of our business processes, including but not limited to: flow charts, work instructions, and process maps. He delivered a sound product on time, of superb quality, and was always available to discuss options when required. My team and I enjoyed working alongside Mr. Cameron, and I would recommend his process focused abilities without reservation or hesitation. Top qualities: Expert, On Time, High Integrity. Brian Boucher JD Irving, Limited
Don brings a sound knowledge of process engineering to any project team. He fit in well with our team and added value by coaching others to leverage his knowledge. Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity. Wayne Williams - BNI
Donald brought excellent subject knowlege, combined with practical, customized, professional, process oriented solutions, aligned to our business requirements, over a number of years.Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity. Brian Stackhouse - Irving Tissue Company
Don was contracted to help us develop new standards for process improvement documentation as well as work with our various Lean-Sigma improvement teams to complete final documentation of flow-charts, work instructions and related supporting documents. He also helped us develop a central data-base to index and house this work so it could be shared across the organization. Don's work was always very thorough with exceptional quality. He has helped us in our Sawmills and Woodlands Divisions as well as the Shipbuilding Division and central head-office. This was important work Don assisted us with and we would definitely make futher use of his services as the needs arise. Top qualities: Expert, On Time, High Integrity. Tim McEwen - JD Irving, Limited


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Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ (listen) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ (listen) wik-ee-PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration project[3] by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system.[4] It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web,[5][6][7] and is one of the most popular websites ranked by Alexa as of October 2019.[8] It features exclusively free content and no commercial ads, and is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.[9][10][11][12]
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Online encyclopedia |
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307 languages |
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Wikimedia Foundation |
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Jimmy Wales Larry Sanger[1] |
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www.wikipedia.org |
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9 (Global, November 2019) |
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No |
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Optional[note 1] |
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>313,871 active users[note 2] and >85,534,289 registered users 1,145 administrators (English) |
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January 15, 2001; 18 years ago |
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Active |
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CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0 Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL; media licensing varies. |
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LAMP platform[2] |
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Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.[13] Sanger coined its name,[14][15] as a portmanteau of "wiki" (the Hawaiian word for "quick"[16]) and "encyclopedia". While it was Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were quickly developed. With at least 5,972,764 articles,[note 3] the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages[17] and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.[18]
In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 hard science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica,[19] although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.[20][21] The following year, Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.[22]
Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truth, half truth, and some falsehoods",[23] and for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics.[24] In addition, Wikipedia has gender bias, particularly on its English-language site, where the dominant majority of editors are male. However, Edit-a-thons have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics.[25][26] Facebook announced that by 2017 it would help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018.[27]
Other collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before Wikipedia, but none were as successful.[28] Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process.[29] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company. Its main figures were Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia.[30][31] Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License, but even before Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urging of Richard Stallman.[32] Wales is credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia, [33][34] while Sanger is credited with the strategy of using a wiki to reach that goal.[35] On January 10, 2001, Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia.[36]
The domains wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org were registered on January 12, 2001[37] and January 13, 2001[38] respectively, and Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001,[29] as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com,[39] and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.[33] Wikipedia's policy of "neutral point-of-view"[40] was codified in its first few months. Otherwise, there were relatively few rules initially and Wikipedia operated independently of Nupedia.[33] Originally, Bomis intended to make Wikipedia a business for profit.[41]
Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing. Language editions were also created, with a total of 161 by the end of 2004.[42] Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia passed the mark of two million articles on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, surpassing the 1408 Yongle Encyclopedia, which had held the record for almost 600 years.[43]
Citing fears of commercial advertising and lack of control in Wikipedia, users of the Spanish Wikipedia forked from Wikipedia to create the Enciclopedia Libre in February 2002.[44] These moves encouraged Wales to announce that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and to change Wikipedia's domain from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org.[45]
Though the English Wikipedia reached three million articles in August 2009, the growth of the edition, in terms of the numbers of new articles and of contributors, appears to have peaked around early 2007.[46] Around 1,800 articles were added daily to the encyclopedia in 2006; by 2013 that average was roughly 800.[47] A team at the Palo Alto Research Center attributed this slowing of growth to the project's increasing exclusivity and resistance to change.[48] Others suggest that the growth is flattening naturally because articles that could be called "low-hanging fruit"—topics that clearly merit an article—have already been created and built up extensively.[49][50][51]
In November 2009, a researcher at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid found that the English Wikipedia had lost 49,000 editors during the first three months of 2009; in comparison, the project lost only 4,900 editors during the same period in 2008.[52][53] The Wall Street Journal cited the array of rules applied to editing and disputes related to such content among the reasons for this trend.[54] Wales disputed these claims in 2009, denying the decline and questioning the methodology of the study.[55] Two years later, in 2011, Wales acknowledged the presence of a slight decline, noting a decrease from "a little more than 36,000 writers" in June 2010 to 35,800 in June 2011. In the same interview, Wales also claimed the number of editors was "stable and sustainable".[56] A 2013 article titled "The Decline of Wikipedia" in MIT's Technology Review questioned this claim. The article revealed that since 2007, Wikipedia had lost a third of its volunteer editors, and those still there have focused increasingly on minutiae.[57] In July 2012, The Atlantic reported that the number of administrators is also in decline.[58] In the November 25, 2013, issue of New York magazine, Katherine Ward stated "Wikipedia, the sixth-most-used website, is facing an internal crisis".[59]
In January 2007, Wikipedia entered for the first time the top-ten list of the most popular websites in the US, according to comScore Networks. With 42.9 million unique visitors, Wikipedia was ranked number 9, surpassing The New York Times (#10) and Apple (#11). This marked a significant increase over January 2006, when the rank was number 33, with Wikipedia receiving around 18.3 million unique visitors.[60] As of September 2019, Wikipedia has rank 9[8] among websites in terms of popularity according to Alexa Internet. In 2014, it received 8 billion pageviews every month.[61] On February 9, 2014, The New York Times reported that Wikipedia has 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a month, "according to the ratings firm comScore."[18]
On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia participated in a series of coordinated protests against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)—by blacking out its pages for 24 hours.[62] More than 162 million people viewed the blackout explanation page that temporarily replaced Wikipedia content.[63][64]
Loveland and Reagle argue that, in process, Wikipedia follows a long tradition of historical encyclopedias that accumulated improvements piecemeal through "stigmergic accumulation".[65][66]
On January 20, 2014, Subodh Varma reporting for The Economic Times indicated that not only had Wikipedia's growth stalled, but that it "had lost nearly 10 per cent of its page views last year. There was a decline of about 2 billion between December 2012 and December 2013. Its most popular versions are leading the slide: page-views of the English Wikipedia declined by 12 per cent, those of German version slid by 17 per cent and the Japanese version lost 9 per cent."[67] Varma added that, "While Wikipedia's managers think that this could be due to errors in counting, other experts feel that Google's Knowledge Graphs project launched last year may be gobbling up Wikipedia users."[67] When contacted on this matter, Clay Shirky, associate professor at New York University and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Security indicated that he suspected much of the page view decline was due to Knowledge Graphs, stating, "If you can get your question answered from the search page, you don't need to click [any further]."[67]
By the end of December 2016, Wikipedia was ranked fifth in the most popular websites globally.[68]
In January 2013, 274301 Wikipedia, an asteroid, was named after Wikipedia; in October 2014, Wikipedia was honored with the Wikipedia Monument; and, in July 2015, Wikipedia became available as 7,473 books for $500,000. In 2019, a species of flowering plant was named Viola wikipedia.[69]
In April 2019, an etched copy of Wikipedia is now on the Moon after surviving a crash landing of Beresheet, a failed Israeli lunar lander, according to experts.[70][71]
In June 2019, scientists reported that all 16 GB of Wikipedia have been encoded into synthetic DNA.[72]
On November 17, 2019, Christina Koch made the first confirmed edit to Wikipedia from space while aboard the International Space Station.[73]
Unlike traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia follows the procrastination principle[note 4][75] regarding the security of its content.[75] It started almost entirely open—anyone could create articles, and any Wikipedia article could be edited by any reader, even those who did not have a Wikipedia account. Modifications to all articles would be published immediately. As a result, any article could contain inaccuracies such as errors, ideological biases, and nonsensical or irrelevant text.
Due to the increasing popularity of Wikipedia, some editions, including the English version, have introduced editing restrictions in some cases. For instance, on the English Wikipedia and some other language editions, only registered users may create a new article.[76] On the English Wikipedia, among others, some particularly controversial, sensitive and/or vandalism-prone pages have been protected to some degree.[77][78] A frequently vandalized article can be semi-protected or extended confirmed protected, meaning that only autoconfirmed or extended confirmed editors are able to modify it.[79] A particularly contentious article may be locked so that only administrators are able to make changes.[80]
In certain cases, all editors are allowed to submit modifications, but review is required for some editors, depending on certain conditions. For example, the German Wikipedia maintains "stable versions" of articles,[81] which have passed certain reviews. Following protracted trials and community discussion, the English Wikipedia introduced the "pending changes" system in December 2012.[82] Under this system, new and unregistered users' edits to certain controversial or vandalism-prone articles are reviewed by established users before they are published.[83]
Although changes are not systematically reviewed, the software that powers Wikipedia provides certain tools allowing anyone to review changes made by others. The "History" page of each article links to each revision.[note 5][84] On most articles, anyone can undo others' changes by clicking a link on the article's history page. Anyone can view the latest changes to articles, and anyone may maintain a "watchlist" of articles that interest them so they can be notified of any changes. "New pages patrol" is a process whereby newly created articles are checked for obvious problems.[85]
In 2003, economics PhD student Andrea Ciffolilli argued that the low transaction costs of participating in a wiki create a catalyst for collaborative development, and that features such as allowing easy access to past versions of a page favor "creative construction" over "creative destruction".[86]
Any change or edit that manipulates content in a way that purposefully compromises the integrity of Wikipedia is considered vandalism. The most common and obvious types of vandalism include additions of obscenities and crude humor. Vandalism can also include advertising and other types of spam.[87] Sometimes editors commit vandalism by removing content or entirely blanking a given page. Less common types of vandalism, such as the deliberate addition of plausible but false information to an article can be more difficult to detect. Vandals can introduce irrelevant formatting, modify page semantics such as the page's title or categorization, manipulate the underlying code of an article, or use images disruptively.[88]
Obvious vandalism is generally easy to remove from Wikipedia articles; the median time to detect and fix vandalism is a few minutes.[89][90] However, some vandalism takes much longer to repair.[91]
In the Seigenthaler biography incident, an anonymous editor introduced false information into the biography of American political figure John Seigenthaler in May 2005. Seigenthaler was falsely presented as a suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[91] The article remained uncorrected for four months.[91] Seigenthaler, the founding editorial director of USA Today and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, called Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and asked whether he had any way of knowing who contributed the misinformation. Wales replied that he did not, although the perpetrator was eventually traced.[92][93] After the incident, Seigenthaler described Wikipedia as "a flawed and irresponsible research tool".[91] This incident led to policy changes at Wikipedia, specifically targeted at tightening up the verifiability of biographical articles of living people.[94]
Wikipedians often have disputes regarding content, which may result in repeatedly making opposite changes to an article, known as "edit warring".[95][96] The process is a resource-consuming scenario where no useful knowledge is added.[97] This practice is also criticized as creating a competitive,[98] conflict based[99] editing culture associated with traditional masculine gender roles,[100] which contributes to the gender bias on Wikipedia.
Special interest groups have engaged in edit wars to advance their own political interests. Defending Israeli settlements in the West Bank, numerous pro-occupation groups have launched "Zionist editing" campaigns.[101] In 2010, the then director general of the Yesha Council and former Israeli Cabinet Minister Naftali Bennett described their goal "as not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view".[102]
Content in Wikipedia is subject to the laws (in particular, copyright laws) of the United States and of the US state of Virginia, where the majority of Wikipedia's servers are located. Beyond legal matters, the editorial principles of Wikipedia are embodied in the "five pillars" and in numerous policies and guidelines intended to appropriately shape content. Even these rules are stored in wiki form, and Wikipedia editors write and revise the website's policies and guidelines.[103] Editors can enforce these rules by deleting or modifying non-compliant material. Originally, rules on the non-English editions of Wikipedia were based on a translation of the rules for the English Wikipedia. They have since diverged to some extent.[81]
According to the rules on the English Wikipedia, each entry in Wikipedia must be about a topic that is encyclopedic and is not a dictionary entry or dictionary-like.[104] A topic should also meet Wikipedia's standards of "notability",[105] which generally means that the topic must have been covered in mainstream media or major academic journal sources that are independent of the article's subject. Further, Wikipedia intends to convey only knowledge that is already established and recognized.[106] It must not present original research. A claim that is likely to be challenged requires a reference to a reliable source. Among Wikipedia editors, this is often phrased as "verifiability, not truth" to express the idea that the readers, not the encyclopedia, are ultimately responsible for checking the truthfulness of the articles and making their own interpretations.[107] This can at times lead to the removal of information that, though valid, is not properly sourced.[108] Finally, Wikipedia must not take sides.[109] All opinions and viewpoints, if attributable to external sources, must enjoy an appropriate share of coverage within an article. This is known as neutral point of view (NPOV).


Visualization 1:
1. Who is the intended audience?
The intended audiences for this visualization are American general public who want to have a general overview on government-launched projects and how they are actually executed comparing with original project plans. This visualization is suitable for those audiences as it is easy to extract key information and comparisons among real cost and expectation can be made quickly.
2. What does the visualization show?
This visualization is designed to show the project execution variances between real and plan in terms of cost and schedule. The visualization is appropriate to the dataset because detailed variance information are given within the original data. By grouping those details by the starting year, further information could be extracted by audiences: average variances among different years, percentages of balanced, negative and positive projects within one year. Detailed project information can also be found by interacting with charts and shown in the table. By this kind of design, overall variance tendency and specified project information are clearly divided and easy for users to make further comparisons.
To be specific, in the bubble chart, each bubble stands for the average variance (schedule and cost) in certain starting year. The pie chart and donut chart describe cost and schedule variance respectively. In these two charts, projects are divided to three types and shown in percentage: balanced projects (with small variances, project finished as planned), positive projects (positive variance, project costs fewer or finished earlier than plan), negative projects (negative variance, more cost or delay). The table in bottom displays details of projects.
3. How is visualization interactive?
The bubble chart is simple to use and easy to interact with. By clicking one bubble, one starting year is selected and the project percentages within that year are displayed in the pie chart and donut chart. Audiences could check specified project information by selecting certain percentage area within pie chart or donut chart.
Based on interactions among diagrams, audiences could quickly get a brief overview on project variations in different years. By further interacting, detailed percentages and project information are displayed according to audience’s opinion. The interactivity is appropriate for audiences because step by step, from general to detail, it derives certain variance information which audiences want to check and visualize them smartly.