When I talk to organizations about how they are using data visualization tools I am often struck by the fact that they use these tools mostly to generate charts and graphs that really aren’t all that different from what they could have created with standard business intelligence or desktop tools. However, people get very excited about their output nonetheless. At first this surprised me, but then I realized what was going on.
Data For All! How New Tools Democratize Visualization
The real value of new data viz tools is that they help even non-data scientists gain comfort with and find insight in big data.
April 08, 2013