A New Way to Visualize Big Data | Big Data Research | Scoop.it

Line graphs and bar and pie charts and scatter plots all work well enough when there are just a few types of data or relationships to display. But in the ocean of big data they’re overwhelmed like dinghies in a storm. They’re limited to a flat world of two dimensions, an X and a Y, a vertical and a horizontal. There’s only so much they can show. They’re starting to look like finger paintings on a cave wall.