

Data Visualization: Telling the story of data
What does your data look like? In the era of big data, information comes from an astonishing array of sources. Structured data from within relational databases. Semi-structured documents in various forms of markup. Lightweight data structures stored as JSON, data coming from Twitter and Facebook status messages, along with an explosion of data coming from smartphones and other “sensors.” Natural language processing and big data scoops like Hadoop are also making legacy log da