Visual Analysis of Time Series Data

Specialized time series analysis tools like our unique Horizon Graph enable fast, valid comparisons of multiple series within limited screen space. Details are available on demand with our drill down and details functions.The ability to handle very large quantities of multivariate time series data is an essential element in a complete visual analysis system. Panopticon offers a range of specialized data visualizations, including Horizon Graphs, Stack Graphs and Line Graphs, designed specifically to make analyzing historical data easier and more efficient. The software's ability to connect to traditional row-oriented relational databases or column-oriented databases is key to supporting fast, responsive multi-dimensional analysis of large data sets. Our time series capabilities are especially important for users in global investment banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and exchanges.

Combine time series historical data with real-time streaming feeds and data from CEP engines

Panopticon dashboards can display interactive visualizations that combine time series data with other sources, including real-time streams and the output of Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines. You can also program your own calculations using simple Excel-like formulas that use data from multiple sources to create new data columns. With this capacity, you can not only understand what is happening in the moment based on your real-time and CEP sources, you can get a grasp on how you got to that point based on historical analysis.

In-Memory OLAP data model supports fast, responsive interactivity for time series databases

Our StreamCube™ OLAP data model is designed for speed. This means our dashboards do more than display information. You can interact with the data and slice and dice even extremely large data sets in a real-time environment. The system responds almost instantly to new filter selections and changes in the data hierarchy. For example, you can have a dashboard designed to analyze performance and risk for a portfolio of equities. You can instantly convert from a hierarchy based on geography to one based on industry sector. This helps you spot underlying patterns and outliers that might be hidden in a single dimensional view of the data.

Exploratory analysis of historical tick data

Many visualization tools can display time series data beautifully. Panopticon is useful as a presentation tool but it does far more. In applications like market risk analysis or algo-trading performance analysis, it's critical that the user be able to interact and dig down as needed to fully understand what has happened over the previous minutes, hours — or even weeks or months! Tick data is voluminous. Panopticon can handle virtually any amount of data required to support historical visual analysis of large blocks of financial instruments for any amount of time. In order to support the interactivity required for exploratory visual analysis, Panopticon's ability to connect to column-oriented databases is a key element in successful implementations.

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