Big Data + Libraries

Post adapted from Correlation vs Causation: Visualization, Statistics, and Intuition!

As someone who has a tendency to think in numbers, I love when success…

Do your dashboards tell the story you want to get across or does your data get lost in a sea of pixels? Tableau strives to keep our users in the flow with software centered on principles of design, cognition, and perception. The same principles apply to great dashboards.

Our recent workshop at the Pi and Mash unconference, held at Senate House Library in August, came about because we wanted to start a discussion about how we might make the most of user and collection data to help deliver library services. How can we ensure that we’re making data-driven decisions about services and not just reflecting a narrow view of what a library should do?

Infographics are popular. They’re a fun way to present and read data, and many people believe that information that is presented visually is often retained better (at least for some learners). Many teachers today are using infographics, both in their classrooms and for their own professional development. There are so many tools out there to …

Data visualisation is by no means a new thing, as evidenced by a new science exhibition at the British Library.

Doing data visualizations correctly takes careful consideration. Incorrectly visualizing something can be misleading, embarassing, and even damaging to

Causal inference is not only about statistics, but also about understanding data. And with increasing computer power, we sure can analyse bigger dataset (big data), but the data is harder to unders...

We actually have three posts to share with you today:

Data science: It's greater than the sum of the parts
Four great visualizations
64 new external resource…

 

http://www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.

Data visualisation examples data-analytics.github.io Selected Tools is a collection of tools that worls for the people on a daily basis and recommend warmly.

 

Visualization is the graphical presentation of information, with the goal of providing the viewer with a qualitative understanding of the information contents. which would result in to retrive hidden insights of the data D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

Big data is one of the largest idea trends of 2013, and the biggest question surrounding it has been figuring out the best way to interpret it all.

Whether you are a corporation ...

Humans are naturally visual creatures -- here are 10 great reasons to hop on the information visualisation train.

Edward Tufte is the guru of graphics, the high priest of presentation.

 

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Edward Tufte is the guru of graphics, the high priest of presentation. For more than 30 years he has been showing us how to visualise data with simplicity, clarity and elegance, while campaigning against “chartjunk” and other design practices that lead to obfuscation.