Factual Turns On Tools To Visualize Big Open Data... service to watch 20100326 23:31

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Big Data is great for geeks, but most normal people don’t get a kick out of looking at huge tables of data (Excel junkies excluded). Factual, which is an open database wiki, just added some tools to help visualize the data entered on the site.

... Factual is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any

subject.

... Every table now has a “visualizations” tab which lets anyone who

publishes a set of data an easy way to turn that data into graphs, maps, and images.

... Factual was founded by Applied Semantics co-founder Gil Elbaz and

raised $1 million in seed funding earlier this year from Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, and a group of super angels.

... http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/26/factual-visualize-big-data/

Official website ... http://www.factual.com/

Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly[1], such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_graphics

The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life.

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth"

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_visualization