alt Hacker NewsWhy visualize data? Graphs and charts always felt like the "show your work" in math class. It is forced synesthesia.
The rocket either lands or doesn't, safely, as expected. Green and Red lights are abstracted data plots.
The context should be the focus.
"Rocket must land at less than 0.2/mps" and pump the data into that context filter, more - reduce velocity, less - green light.
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Sure, machines don't need visualization (although it seems that images are a surprisingly good medium to get context into agents), but humans still do. Mathematicians have plotted functions for a long time now. While the pure truth lies in the definition of f(x), the visualization helps the mind to grasp what it actually is. Humans will run companies for the foreseeable future, and so we will need visualization for the foreseeable future
Without guidance my agents tend to make me read CSVs.
Sure the data is correct, but it's obviously way easier for me to read it as a properly rendered table. Then you want to sort, group, aggregate the data. Visualize it many different ways if you will :)
I've worked in data for 15 years and I've never heard this argument. I love it :)!
Who knows, with AI this may be the future. Visualizations were created to help us understand data. Florence Nightingale published them "to affect thro' the Eyes what we fail to convey to the public through their word-proof ears."
Often a formula better represents a situation. But I'm not sure how much impact they'd have in spreading that understanding outside of a formula-minded audience.