The need of data visualization
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We’ve all heard it: according to Hal Varian, statistics is the next sexy job . Five years ago, in What is Web 2.0 , Tim O’Reilly said that “data is the next Intel Inside.”
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Context. It’s not enough simply to have the right data. People must have access to views of the data that depict exactly what they need to see, whether it be an executive dashboard, a regional summary map, or a customer-by-customer detailed report by Aug 13
Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on "data" to feed our stories, to the point that "data-driven reporting" becomes second nature to journalists. The shift from facts to data is subtle and makes perfect sense. You could that say data are facts, with the difference that they can be computed, analyzed, and made use of in a more abstract way, especially by a computer.
Feel free to ask questions . There's a lot of little tricks . by mirlen101 Jan 22