Data Visualization

Many organizations, especially software organizations, pay little heed to visualization and simplifying the complexity - which should be the very raison d'etre of any technology. Furthermore, the issues of complexity and complicatedness are also discombobulated, leading to the challenges of presentation to the end-user.

As the classic definition goes: Complexity is a function of the number of components and their interactions in a system, while Complicatedness is a function of the nature of those interactions . Thus a complex system is not necessarily a complicated system, and vice-versa.

We believe that visualization and presentation play a huge part in reducing both complexity and complicatedness, especially when it comes to interactions with data. While that may seem to be a no-brainer, finding the right visualization mechanism for a situation is particularly difficult.

Here is a fabulous "thought-starter" to thinking through what approach might be most appropriate for a given situation.





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