{"id":1892,"date":"2014-09-08T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2015-08-06T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:35:48","slug":"big-data-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/big-data-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>… would have been the better title for the book “Graphics of Large Datasets<\/a>“. As the book was published a few years before the birth<\/a> of the next buzz word promoted by McKinsey with the white paper “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity<\/a><\/em>“, we just did\u00a0not know better.<\/p>\n

But to be honest, much of the book’s first half – to be precise the first 101 pages – deals with exact with what we generally face when displaying millions of data points \/ rows \/ records.<\/p>\n

Here is just a small collection of what you have to expect beyond Amazon’s “look inside” feature:<\/p>\n

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Well, there is certainly one big drawback with this book, as it does not try to simplify things and offer trivial solutions. To cite Albert Einstein:<\/p>\n

Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As we deal with really big data, i.e., millions of records, thousands of variables or thousands of models, problems\u00a0at least need more thought than classical business graphics.<\/p>\n

Talking about classical business graphics, in a very modern (i.e., big data compatible) look, we find, e.g., what the guys from Datameer offer as a solution to big data visualization:<\/p>\n

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… would have been the better title for the book “Graphics of Large Datasets“. As the book was published a few years before the birth of the next buzz word promoted by McKinsey with the white paper “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity“, we just did\u00a0not know better. But to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-books","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}