Seeing is believing: Designing visualizations for managing risk and compliance

This is relevant paper by the IBM Labs in visualization analytics. Although the paper orientation is toward risk management compliance in the Sarbarnes-Oxley area, its general principles have applicability over all analytics. For example:
1. A visualization should be thought of as a user interface to a control task, not as a report or a report component.
2. The patterns that are important for users to manage are at the level of the
controls
3. Visualizations must be able to evolve as the process for an individual or a group evolves or as the overall compliance process evolves