Between smart phones, social media, and the everpresent “cloud”, Humans are creating data at scales previously thought impossible.  While great strides have been made in basic processing of this data for advertising and a few other areas, deep value remains buried in these mountains of information.  GigaOm takes a look at 6 new startups looking to find newfound gold in these mountains of data.

They are to big data what server and network configurations are to mobile-app development on platforms like Parse. If you’re going to find out new things from massive and highly complex data sets, or going to give new types of people the ability to analyze even simple data, the presentation of that data and the ability to create consumable presentations are critical.

via Visualization is the future: 6 startups re-imagining how we consume data — Tech News and Analysis.