When data is visualized, or put into a pictoral or graphical format, it is often easier to understand and analyze. Data visualization can be used to present frequency distributions to discover multi-dimensional relationships or to help interpret unstructured data.
“Organizing, Visualizing, and Describing Data” presents several data visualization tools.
- Histograms and frequency polygons
- Bar charts
- Treemaps
- Word clouds
- Line charts
- Scatter plots
- Heat maps