Making big data human-digestible

Great stockpiles of data are not useful by themselves; we must be able to extract the information they contain. Ultimately, we will want this information to be consumed by a human in some way and our visual pathways are the highest-bandwidth routes to our mind’s eye. By selecting appropriate visualization vehicles, we are able to effectively take advantage of a person’s built-in hardware for understanding the world around them. This allows us to take large amounts of highly-dimensional data and shrink it down to the human scale.