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CSAIL Rides Big Data Visualization Wave

Visualization is an important aspect of big data analytics, as it allows humans to make better assessments than they would by just looking at numbers. However, it can take an especially long time to produce a graph or chart if the dataset is in the terabyte range... Read more…

Optimizing Visualization Workloads

As Michael A. Jackson argues, for IT managers, visualization workload optimization is arriving in the nick of time. That’s because today it’s not unusual for 3D simulations to top out at 50 gigabytes or more. Worse still, they’re getting bigger every year, and workload management issues are following suit. Workstations are becoming obsolete faster than ever before—usually in less than 3 years—and, of course, licensing, troubleshooting, Read more…

The Endangered Spreadsheet Culture

Visualization and simplified interfaces to address complex data are putting the power of big data in the hands of non-data professionals. To understand how this shakes up data culture, we speak with Great Western Bank's Vice President of Data Quality about how visualization in particular is making.... Read more…

Snapshots from the Edge of Big Visualization

Effective visualization allows previously undiscovered questions to emerge and provides a human element to bridge the divide between the plethora of new tools and frameworks for processing and managing big data. This week we look inside a handful of visualization use cases that are representative of the.... Read more…

Inside LinkedIn’s Expanding Data Universe

This week we spent some time with LinkedIn team lead, data scientist and economist, Scott Nicholson to get a sense of what possibilities the big data of 150 million users present. We were able to get behind the scenes of the infrastructure and diverse stack (it's more than just Hadoop), and to tap into some visualizations that would make even a seasoned economist... Read more…

Inside the Mind of a Data Artist

Back in November, New York-based educator and data-slinging artist Jer Thorp spoke at a Ted event in his native country about the weight of information and how a childhood experience led him down the path of rethinking visualization of bits.... Read more…

NASA Resource Brings Big Science Data Home

This week NASA announced enhancements to its way to showcase the results of big data visualizations of Earth, the Sun and our universe for users on the move. With the extensions and new capabilities that have been tacked on to the existing... Read more…

Supercomputing Center Set to Become Big Data Hub

This week one of the United States' largest HPC and scientific visualization centers announced a $10 million commitment from the O’Donnell Foundation to enhance their data-intensive science capabilities. We check in with TACC head, Dr. Jay Boisseau to find out what new HPC, big data purchases are in their future and how.... Read more…

LSU Taps Visualization Toolsets

Today, VSG has announced that Louisiana State University has agreed to the licensing of the company’s Avizo big data visualization software to provide sophisticated visualizations for the study of 3D imaging and its uses across the broader spectrum.... Read more…

Tableau Sharpens Swiss Knife Approach

Business intelligence analytics and visualization startup Tableau has pitched itself as a vendor with the ability to let user data speak in unique ways—and also as a company that has a story that is itself founded in creativity given its founding... Read more…

Pervasive Lends Supercomputing Center Analytical Might

Pervasive Software teamed up with researchers from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and researchers at the nearby University of Texas in Austin to address the challenges of big visualization at the staggering scale common to astrophysics data. Read more…

Live from SC11: Turning Big Data into Big Physics

GPU technology is playing a major role in boosting the efficiency and processing horsepower of businesses that are reliant on rapid-fire simulations. We speak with Matthew Scarpino from Eclipse Engineering and provide a glimpse of the visualization showcase from SC11. Read more…

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