Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful.

The article discusses the study being done by data artists on ways to make large data compehensible and accessible to a broader range of people and display their data visualizations inside venues like the corporate facilities of companies like Google and Microsoft Corp. Topics discussed include Face...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 6; pp. 19 - 22
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Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2014
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