Robert Kosara has a great interview with the Charlotte Observer, which makes sense as he is a professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte. They start off easy with the definition of ‘data visualization’, but quickly move into some of his own implementations of visualization.
I worked with Bank of America looking at wire transfer frauds. We built a visual system that gave them a way to look for clusters of wire transfer transactions by using certain criteria. This was using a large amount of data; they might have a million transfers per week, 50 million per year. Using the visual system we built, they could find suspicious transactions and then investigate. The data here is very abstract. People think about money as coins and bills, but here it is just abstract numbers.
via How to turn numbers into a visual treat – CharlotteObserver.com.
