Visualizing Big Data

Muaz A Mian

Pie Chart

Bar Chart

Normal Visualization tools

Think of out of Box

• Visualization always depends on your dataset.• So sometime you just need to …

World Map using Facebook friends information

ChronoZoom – Visualizing entire history of Universe

When is data too much?When it doesn’t fit the screen.

So we visualize

Visualization Problems in Big Data

• visualizing more data points than possible

Clutter

• Taking time to load

Performance

• Loosing key data points

Information Loss

• Understanding becomes limited

Limited Cognition

Some Solution to Visualization

• Selecting a small set of actual data

Sampling

• Grouping data

Aggregation

Tuning / Tweaking

• Breaking data on some parameter

Segmentation

Web Visualization Tools

D3

amCharts

Visual.ly