The process of visualizing data: why we need it and how it provides insight to big data

Published: July 19, 2021, 11 a.m.

Data is all around us! What can we do to make this data meaningful and understandable without making it complicated and overwhelming? Vetria Byrd, Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology with Purdue Polytechnic Institute and Director of the Byrd Data Visualization Lab joins us to discuss data visualization, building data visualization capacity, and the 4 V\u2019s of big data.\xa0

Additional resources:

Choosing the right chart type: https://img.ctrlq.org/di/data-chart-type.png\xa0\xa0

Data Visualization Catalog: https://datavizcatalogue.com/\xa0

Power BI: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/\xa0

Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart\xa0

Tableau: https://www.tableau.com/\xa0

This website provides a list of different visualization tools along with their pros and cons.

https://www.toptal.com/designers/data-visualization/data-visualization-tools\xa0

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