Data visualization

Data visualization is the process of understanding the relationships between various entities in the raw data via graphical means. This is a very powerful technique because it enables end users to get the message in a very easy form without even knowing anything about the underlying data.

Data visualization plays a very important role in visual communication of insights from big data. Its both an art and a science, and requires some effort in terms of understanding the data; at the same time we need some understanding of the target audience as well.

So far, we have seen that any type of data can be stored in the Hadoop filesystem (HDFS). In order to convert complex data structures into a visual form, we need to understand ...

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