Big Data: water wordscape (Photo credit: Marius B) In the first quarter of 2013, the stock of big data has experienced sudden declines followed by sporadic bouts of enthusiasm. The volatility—a ...

Big data helps businesses make better decisions – getting bogged down in an endless search for correlation or causation explanations will only prevent them from reaping all of data’s rewards.

And while scientific data is not often presented in such an elaborate and well-designed format, how to properly design data visualization for understanding and analysis, Tufte’s legacy, remains an ...

Researchers suggest tilting scatter plots by 45 degrees to make the viewer question assumptions about correlation.

From wildly popular big data conferences to columns in major newspapers, the business and science worlds are focused on how large datasets can give insight on previously intractable challenges.

Big Data is also a part of everyday life in the advertising department. According to Time Warner Cable Media president Joan Gillman, the company uses sophisticated correlation solutions that meld ...

The system has been shown to successfully extract data from 89 percent of procedurally-generated scatter plots, and 78 percent of scatter plots found on the Web. Here’s how Scatteract works in a ...