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Mico YukCEO BIBrainz

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As the founder and CEO of BI Brainz, I’ve been in the Business Intelligence industry for 8 years. Besides leading a team of some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, I share my passion for Analytics through the BI Brainz Academy, blogs, social media and global keynotes. My favorite pass time is being a bonafide beach bum!

All across the web, people are generating billions of gigabytes of data per day.

This huge amount of information, termed “Big Data,” is impossible to keep track of without first organizing it into an easily digestible format.

Data visualization can help you to pare down the extensive influxes of data such as customer interactions, changing industry trends and daily company operations.

Here is a list of sites that we use for creative stimulation and motivation. We thought it would be great to share!

Visual.lyAs the founders of the largest online infographic community, visual.ly is definitely one of our favorite go to sites for

creative inspiration.

It’s huge and diverse community proves that one can build a data visualization for just about anything.

It is particularly useful however, to demonstrate how fun it can be tell your big data story. More recently, the folks at Visual.ly started to offer their services to help you to take any size data and convert it into a compelling infographic.

The Functional ArtNow known as a highly regarded speaker on the topic of data visualization Alberto’s

blog has earned the number two spot on our list.

The one thing to note, is that Alberto mainly focuses on visualizing journalism data, but a lot of what he teaches applies the same to business intelligence.

In addition to blog subscriptions, his @albertocairo twitter account has over 13,000 followers and growing.

Information is BeautifulNot only is his work compelling, but his very ‘British’ approach to the data viz

topic was fun to listen to.

While his visualizations may be a bit out of reach for most of ‘us’ regular folks, his book and blog are great to keep the creative juices running.

He often focuses on displaying world data, so its always fun to see what he comes up with next. We’re big fans!

Visualizing DataFounded by another famed author, Andy Kirk, we love this blog for its diversity in

information but strict focus on data visualization.

You can get everything from best practices to a long list of wild big data visualization examples.

Our favorite blog category is ‘Collections’ where Kirk gives a monthly recap of articles he pulls together with some of the best content on the web. We’re looking forward to his new book!

GE Visualization BlogIt’s seldom that we’ll feature a big company like GE as one of our favorite sites,

but GE has truly done a great job with their visualization site.

They keep the site updated with amazing use cases of how they use data to literally change the world.

Even if you’re not into the ‘energy’ topic, this blog is intriguing to follow.

Due to its ‘vast’ budget, GA also posts amazing videos showcasing what they are doing. Great job for a big enterprise.

Which sites do you follow to get your

creative fix?

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Matthew Broderick

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