The 2014 Winter Olympics is going on in Sochi, Russia, and Paul Banoub of Viz Ninja has created this dashboard Tableau Public to let us explore the history of the games.
Data Visualization is the study of the visual representation of big volumes of data. The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. Learn about big data visualization products and strategies through these articles from the editorial experts at insideBIGDATA
Visualization of the Week: Who Really Won the Superbowl?
February 5, 2014 by
For this week’s top visualization, Nelson Davis of Slalom analyzes the advertising revenue generated by Super Bowl television commercials over the course of the game.
etcML – Free Text-Analysis Tool
February 5, 2014 by
Have you every wondered whether a certain TV network has a specific political bias? Is your favorite news source fair and balanced? A group of Stanford computer scientists have created a website with the ability to answer such questions for free using machine learning technology.
Visualization of the Week: World’s Largest Stadiums
January 30, 2014 by
With the Superbowl coming up this Sunday, Peter Gilks of Slalom Consulting in New York uses Tableau to create intriguing infographics like this one showing the size of stadiums around the world.
Visualization of the Week: Google Music Timeline
January 23, 2014 by
The Google Big Picture Group has a number of eye-catching big data visualizations based on on-going research projects at the search engine giant. One project, Music Timeline as shown below, shows how different musical genres became popular over time, and let’s you discover artists in each genre.
Map-D: GPU-Powered Social Science Research in Real Time
January 17, 2014 by
“Map-D uses multiple NVIDIA GPUs to interactively query and visualize big data in real-time. Map-D is an SQL-enabled column store that generates 70-400X speedups over other in-memory databases. This talk discusses the basic architecture of the system, the advantages and challenges of running queries on the GPU, and the implications of interactive and real-time big data analysis in the social sciences and beyond.”
Predicting the Popularity of a Tweet
January 12, 2014 by
As social media becomes increasingly important as a data source for the purposes of machine learning, finding a brand new method for analyzing the Twitter microblogging platform is very compelling. Tauid Zaman, assistant professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, developed a probabilistic model for the spread of an individual tweet in the twitterverse.
Visualization of the Week: Sentence Drawing
January 11, 2014 by
This week’s top visualization is actually a new algorithmic technique for showing the aesthetic and organic beauty of language based on a very innovative use of R and the popular ggplot2 package.
Visualization of the Week: Viz Hall of Fame
January 5, 2014 by
Witness the Viz Hall of Fame thanks for our friends at Tableau Software. Featured are several cool visualizations submitted to the company by users of Tableau Public including: Nuclear Explosions Since 1945, Marriage Equality Around the World, 1000 Number 1 Albums, and Do Old Movies Get Better With Age?
Information Visualization
January 3, 2014 by
Information visualization is an increasingly important element of big data as it is the technology best able to convey the message emanating from the data. Here is a nice paper “Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks” (pdf) by Andrew Gelman (Professor of Statistics at Columbia University) and Antony Unwin that discusses the topic of information visualization.
