Data liberation via visualization
“Data democratization” movements try to make data, and especially government-held data, publicly available and accessible. A growing number of technological efforts are devoted to such efforts and especially the accessibility part. One such effort is by data visualization companies. A recent trend is to offer a free version (or at least free for some period) that is based on sharing your visualization and/or data to the Web. The “and/or” here is important, because in some cases you cannot share your data, but you would like to share the visualizations with the world. This is what I call “data liberation via … Continue reading Data liberation via visualization