effective-information-visualizationThe 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.