Data Visualization: Tools and Challenges over Big Data

Abstract

Today's enterprises collect and store vast amounts of data that would take years for a human to read, let alone understand. We are producing and treating petabytes of data every day. Big data will be transformative in every space of life. But just to process and analyze those data is not enough, the human brain tends to find the pattern more efficiently when information is represented visually. Data Visualization and Analytics play an essential role in decision making in various sectors. It also leads to new opportunities in the visualization domain representing the innovative ideation for solving the big-data problem via visual means. The trick with Big Data visualization is choosing the most efficient way to visualize the data to surface any insights it may contain.  In some circumstances, simple business tools such as pie charts or histograms may reveal the whole story, but with significant, numerous and diverse data sets more esoteric visualization techniques may be more appropriate. In this paper, we discuss How Data Visualization Works, the importance of Big Data Visualization, challenges and comparison of big data visualization tools.