The document discusses how data visualization and analysis can reveal beauty and insights. It provides examples of data visualizations that resemble artworks or reveal interesting patterns about topics like gender breakdown of White House visitors, laptop battery usage over time, and best-selling book covers from 2000-2011. The author argues that data has an obvious visual appeal, can make people think and reflect, and seems more objective, which is driving increased interest in analyzing and visualizing data.
45. • Data makes us think, reflect, contemplate
• Obvious visual appeal
• Data seems more honest/objective
• These effects are driving the growing
hunger for data!
Why I think There’s Beauty in Data
Data
Analysis
Art Science