Five Misconceptions About Visualization

Nathan Yau outlines five common misconceptions about visualization of business intelligence:

• Visualization is for making data flashy
• Software does everything
• The more information in a single graphic, the better
• Visualization is too biased to be useful
• Visualization has to be exact

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I would add that the misconceptions outlined by Yau above, apply equally to modeling in general.

Source: Yau, N (2011, September 23), 5 Misconceptions About Visualization, Flowing Data.

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