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’s of big data. 

Additional resources:

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

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

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

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

Tableau: https://www.tableau.com/ 

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