Skip to main content

Home/ edXchange/ Group items tagged big data

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Steve Zuiker

Tableau Software Helps Big Data Become More Visual & More Storified - 0 views

  • In the new version, Tableau 8.2, people are encouraged to shift from making individual maps, bar charts and fever lines that illustrate information. Instead, Tableau has added a series of narrative boxes that go above each chart; clicked through in order, the charts should be better at using different data points to prove an overall case.
  • Data has moved from something that is painstakingly collected, stored and downloaded to something that more often automatically streams online.
  • we are starting to think of information in more dynamic ways, and need to visualize information as something that changes over time. That is a big change from a typical PowerPoint presentation, which presents data in more static ways.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • At its best, this could mean we’ll move from seeing projections of data less as a single concept, which must be digested and then considered against another distinct point. Instead, it could be more of a fluid persuasion, based on lots of related information.
  • Tableau is hardly alone in this shift to dynamic illustration. Stamen Design, a company based in San Francisco that has worked for Google and Facebook, increasingly uses animations of data points. A company called ClearStory Data helps people move through mountains of big data by interactive charts and maps. Even Microsoft offers animations as an addition to its PowerPoint product.
  •  
    one basic example of approaching big data with nuance - storytelling here but not in the vein of McDermott, R. (2010). The passions of learning in tight circumstances: Toward a political economy of the mind. NSSE Yearbook, 109(1).
1 - 1 of 1
Showing 20 items per page