Why an (interactive) picture is worth a thousand numbers - Miriah Meyer (University of Utah)

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Channel: O'Reilly · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Feeling overwhelmed by huge amounts of data has become the norm. Creating effective visual representations of data offloads some of the work of quickly finding interesting patterns to our powerful perceptual system. Miriah Meyer explores the role that interactive visualizations can play in helping us find meaning in mounds of data and discusses the limitations of this approach.

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