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Welcome to Revveal!<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\tJanuary 15, 2010<\/small>
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What’s with the name and why the extra ‘v’ you say? I’ll get to that in a moment, but first let me introduce myself. My name is Jason Price and I am passionate about working with all kinds of data to help inform better decision making. I tend to have a tongue-in-cheek<\/a> style of writing in order to keep things light, so please do not take me seriously all of the time.\u00a0\u00a0 Talking about data isn’t always that dry!<\/p>\n

I will be using this blog to emphasize the skills, expertise, and tools used to discover, visualize, and interact with data, leading to better understanding.\u00a0 Better understanding of data leads to more informed decisions – we want to look smart, right?\u00a0 That said, I will also include posts on the “heavy lifting” aspect too (acquiring, parsing, cleaning, transforming data).\u00a0 You can’t visualize and interact with data without having it first!<\/p>\n

Oh, back to the name…\u00a0\u00a0 I thought Reveal<\/a> was an appropriate name since the definition of the word means ‘to make known; to unveil; to disclose; to show; uncover; make apparent.’\u00a0\u00a0 You get the idea.\u00a0\u00a0 Working with data is sometimes a very daunting task and it is much easier to understand it when in a visual format.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The extra ‘v’ emphasizes the importance of v<\/strong>isualizing data since it is not always apparent what the story tells us when looking at plain old tabular views of data.\u00a0\u00a0 Tabular data is sometimes necessary but it is much easier to see patterns, trends, and outliers when in visual format.\u00a0 Take the following simple example (I promise it will get better than this, it is only my first post).\u00a0\u00a0 It takes a couple seconds to determine which project owner has a larger budget in the visual representation.<\/p>\n\n\t\t