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Discussion on: What is Data Visualisation?

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Ben Halpern

Data visualization is the step where we take the underlying data and present it as a graphic. You could do this with an image or PDF or interactively in JS.

D3.js is the most popular data viz library. It predates React, so while there are React integrations, it may or may not be seamless and I believe there are other libraries that integrate better with React (though I'm a bit out of the loop on all this).

So that's it. Hope it helps.

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Divyesh Parmar

Wow you always reply! Awesome! So Javascript has answers or should I say libraries for everything.

And also what is Data Mining then, is it anywhere relevant to all these?

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Ben Halpern

Data mining is a general term for crawling for data, extracting it from a source. If the web has a bajillion pages and I want to find the <title> tag for all of them, that general process would be data mining.

Then if I want to display trends, I might use data visualization to do that.