January 15, 2020

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Why an (interactive) picture is worth a thousand numbers

Why an (interactive) picture is worth a thousand numbers

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.
Talk Title Why an (interactive) picture is worth a thousand numbers
Speakers Miriah Meyer (University of Utah)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Build Resilient Distributed Systems
Location London, United Kingdom
Date October 18-20, 2017
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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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