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Data data everywhere but not a scrap of sense | Government 2.0 Taskforce

  • But I was reminded yesterday in a discussion about social software how much of our total information is now in an unstructured format, where the value lies in the ability to understand the context and meaning of data and its relationship to other information which is not supported in a nice neat way.
  • So, what am I saying here? Basically that the agenda of Gov 2.0, and of the whole project of providing transparency and openness in government data, cannot be met unless we deal with the challenge of finding the “jewels”, the “gems” in the unstructured data itself.

Data Visualization: Stories for the Information Age - BusinessWeek

  • Data visualization has nothing to do with pie charts and bar graphs. And it's only marginally related to "infographics," information design that tends to be about objectivity and clarification. Such representations simply offer another iteration of the data—restating it visually and making it easier to digest. Data visualization, on the other hand, is an interpretation, a different way to look at and think about data that often exposes complex patterns or correlations.
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