Chapter 1
Welcome to Visual Analytics
This chapter introduces the practice of visual analytics with an overview of the state of the data visualization industry. As a foundation for more in-depth explorations throughout this book, we’ll review recent research that highlights how data visualization and visual data storytelling have become in-demand analytic job skills today, how the two practices are similar and different, and how both are propelled by new technologies and bigger, more diverse, and more dynamic data. Lastly, we’ll examine the role of communication skills within visual analytics and briefly discuss how industry and academia are supporting the demand for visual analysts today.
A Visual Revolution
In his opening comments at the ...
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