2010 is starting off with some great articles about data visualization and their building importance to the business world. On the Harvard Business Review site, former HBS professor John Sviokla writes a quick post about three benefits of data visualization. What are they?
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- Great visualizations are efficient
- Great visualizations can help people discover new understandings
- Great visualizations can help create shared understandings
While his article is clear, it doesn't really go in to too much detail, which is unfortunate. With such a great pedigree and a great audience, he could do much more to help champion great data-driven stories.
A much more detailed and predictive article is entitled The State of Information Visualization over on the Eager Eyes blog by Robert Kosara. He (rightly, I think) predicts that interactive web-based data visualizations are going to grow in popularity and complexity and start to be implemented in JavaScript. Like me, he also thinks that bioinformatics will be the main area of growth -- data about people's bodies. He even thinks 2010 could be "The Year of Visualization Theory" where new academic discourse leads to a much better understanding of how visualization should work in the digital age. I sure hope he's right!
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