Investigative minded people will definitely relate to this story from almost every child’s formative years. The day they get their hands on a magnifying glass, kids would feign being the most famous detective of all times – Sherlock Holmes with a cap they would focus the magnifying glass on an object and try and derive meaning by studying the details closely. This would be their first lesson in data visualization. Later as we learnt about Mr. Holmes through books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle many of us may have imagined pursuing a career as a full-fledged detective. In his book A Study in Scarlet is the most vivid description of the inclination Mr. Holmes has for the sciences.
Now that we come to think of it a detective has probably evolved in this technologically driven planet into a modern-day data analyst or an experimental scientist. The job of a data analyst or scientist revolves around gathering a bunch of disorganized data, and then we use this to build a case through deduction and logic and then you reach a conclusion after analysis. Continue reading “Sherlock Holmes Has Been Doing Data Visualization Before Big Data”
