Data Visualization: Pretty Pictures Ain’t Analytics

Yes, I said it!  So many of you are going gaga by visualizations; so blinded you forget the real reason for the work:  Business Value.  Some of you might even participate in contests of who can make the prettiest visualization.  Some popular Data Science blogs even have a visual of the month section.  Well, after all, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. That may be true of landscapes or love interests, but the visualizations data scientists produce for business people often aren’t worth the battery power it takes to display them on an iPad.

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