One of my classmates mentioned, “When looking at data, not only is it really important to have an good understanding of the raw data and ways to manipulate it, but it is almost equally important to be able to portray this data in a meaningful way. There are many very exciting ways that people have visualized data, \u00a0and I think you can be especially creative when the data is in the form of text.” One of the ways that this can be done is through word clouds.\u00a0The article mentions that word clouds are “static” and not very interactive, which doesn’t allow people to explore it. However, it is still pretty creative. While it is not the most fun, it maximizes your time because you are drawn to the words and topics that are most important throughout whatever article you would’ve had to sit down and read through. Everything is right in front of you, so you can skip over the less important things because it’s obvious which topics deserve your attention more. The article spoke on videos and other forms of relaying information that are entertaining, but with those methods you would still have to listen to and watch information that you don’t need to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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