Data and Politics
Data and data visualizations are increasingly being used to advance agendas.
When people ask me what I write about, I tell them that I focus on the intersection of people, technology, business, and data. It's a short, accurate, and (I hope) intriguing description of my work.
The Visual Organization explores Big Data and data visualization in business contexts. That hardly means, though, that there aren't myriad non-commercial uses for dataviz. Far from it. As I write in the book, we've not only seen the rise of visual organizations. Visual consumers, visual citizens, visual journalists, and visual governments have also arrived in full force. In short, ours is a much more visual and data-oriented world than even five years ago. The same will be said in five years.
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