Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Data Visualization

I really enjoyed this video because I feel like the topic of data visualization is something that we can all relate to. Today, we are surrounded by an overwhelming amount of data every single day; every message sent or received  on our smart phone, every scroll through Instagram, and even each time we swipe into a building on campus, is generating some form of data. Due to the almost infinite amount of data generated on a daily basis, data visualization is so important because it allows us to make more sense of a this information. 

This video reminded me of a data visualization application called Tableau, which I learned to use In one of my info systems classes. The purpose of this software is to take data from applications such as Excel or Access and create visual representations of the data. When we look at data as just numbers or letters, such as how they appear in an Excel worksheet for example, they’re really just letters and numbers on a page; they don’t make much sense to the human brain. By creating some sort of a visual representation of the same information, however, it allows people to make sense of it and draw important conclusions. 

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