Effective Data Visualization Techniques, from Business to Social Advocacy
No matter how much data you amass, or how ingenious your models may be, your efforts are only as effective as how you communicate the insights revealed. Data visualization is not a new art, but one which has grown significantly more important in recent years, as organizations must respond to an increasing amount of data faster than ever.
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Demonstrating the High-Performance Future of Hadoop at Strata
The ten- and hundred-fold gains in productivity, speed, and accessibility that Pivotal HD brings to Hadoop took center stage at an afternoon breakout session at the Strata Conference on Wednesday, February 27th. Josh Klahr, Greenplum’s Vice President of Product Management, and Gavin Sherry, Senior Director of Engineering offered a deep dive into the High-Performance Future of the platform.
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Scott Yara’s Strata Keynote: Data and Collaboration In “An Extraordinary Time”
Greenplum co-founder, Scott Yara struck an inspirational tone during his keynote at the Strata Conference #strataconf on Wednesday, February 27th in Santa Clara. Yara cast a wide net, paying tribute to the practitioners who have pushed the data community forward and inspired Greenplum’s vision, emphasizing collaboration and the wide swath of sectors and issues that data science can deliver insight on.
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Visual.ly Predicts 2013’s Hot Data Visualization Trends
Data visualizations and infographics are proliferating on the web. This is thanks to the form’s ability to communicate complex ideas and large data sets in compelling and effective ways, and its great potential for creativity and innovation. That said, trends in the space are fast-moving, and as always, innovative visualization techniques are only successful so long as they communicate the data-driven insights effectively and accurately.
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Heroic Feats of Data Scientists Doing Good
Data scientists are a tireless lot: between using their multidisciplinary skills to solve critical business challenges, fielding job offers, and competing in Kaggle competitions, many practitioners moonlight in service of the public good. These heroic data divers serve a critical need, devoting nights and weekends to munging messy XML files, developing models, and unearthing insights for non-profits and advocacy groups that lack these skills or resources.
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D.J. Patil: Data Science is Storytelling
There’s a significant gulf between collecting Big Data and being able to confidently act upon it. In that gulf you’ll find data scientists developing and refining models, identifying questions, and communicating the insights and predictions that emerge. Effectively conveying these conclusions requires more than simply plotting points on a graph or map: it’s a narrative process.
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Greenplum Plugs In To Gnip
With data from social media platforms accounting for an ever-increasing amount of the Big Data deluge, collecting that data becomes an ever-moving target. As social networks proliferate, so do the respective services’ APIs and access policies. Social media aggregator Gnip aims to simplify the process, allowing businesses to focus on reaping social data insight, rather than tracking which services are hot, which are not, and which have changed their API policies.
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A Day in the Life of a Data Journalist
The Guardian is one of the most aggressive and forward-thinking news organizations to embrace data journalism in recent years. It has assembled a top-flight data science team, created a slew of impressive visualized news packages, and released the eBook Facts are Sacred: The Power of Data, one of the foundational texts for the emerging field.
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The 2012 Election and the Importance of Effectively Communicating Data-Driven Insights
The big winner – or at least the biggest story – of the 2012 Election may be Big Data and the practice of data science. From the Obama campaign’s data-driven electioneering directed by Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani, to the pundit-confounding and uncannily accurate projections of Nate Silver and other statisticians, this may go down as “The Nerdiest Election Ever,” as Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman declared.
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