Matthias Shapiro’s Effective Information Visualization Talk

The Ignite Presentation series is an interesting idea where presenters get 5 minutes to give a presentation on any topic, using slides that autoadvanced at 15s intervals.  A recently published talk from Matthias Shapiro discusses information visualization and how to extracting understanding from information.

We are swimming in data. Too much to comprehend, at times. Matthias Shapiro walks us through the visualization techniques that can be used to figure out what a data set is trying to tell us.

Watch his talk after the break.

via YouTube – EFFECTIVE INFORMATION VISUALIZATION by Matthias Shapiro – EP 31.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .