Another visualization research has joined the public cry of “Where are the Visualization Success Stories?” . This time it’s the Fell in Love With Data blog’s Enrico Bertini.
Yes I know, impact could be defined in a million different ways and it may be hard to capture. But why? Why I never stumble into an article or blog post showing, I don’t know, for instance, how visualization helped a group of doctors doing something remarkable with visualization?
In days of shrinking budgets and tighter schedules, visualization researchers find themselves forced to justify their existence regularly when they typically do not operate independently but rather attached to a larger research organization (a government agency, research lab, or data acquisition group). This typically means their work, outside of pure-research like what you see at IEEE VisWeek and such, is presented and shown by that group, leaving the visualization team out of the loop.
How do you propose this situation change?
via Where are the data visualization success stories? — Fell in Love with Data.
