Visualization Aims to Be Huge in 2018
March 9, 2018
Al the data in the world won’t do you much good if users can’t visualize it. This has been a fact for the computer since Steve Jobs was working out of a garage. But with today’s onslaught of big data, it’s more important than ever. Luckily, it’s going to be huge in the coming year, according to a recent Business Wire article, “IHS Markit Identifies the Top Eight Tech Trends for 2018.”
According to the story, the two best trends are:
Trend #5: Ubiquitous video
The growing use of screens and cameras across multiple consumer- and enterprise-device categories, along with increasingly advanced broadcast, fixed and mobile data networks, is powering an explosion in video consumption, creation, distribution and data traffic. More importantly, video content is increasingly expanding beyond entertainment into industrial applications for medical, education, security and remote controls, as well as digital signage.
Trend #6: Computer vision
The increasing importance of computer vision is directly tied to the mega-trend of digitization that has been playing out in the industrial, enterprise and consumer segments. The proliferation of image sensors, as well as improvements in image processing and analysis, are enabling a broad range of applications and use cases including industrial robots, drone applications, intelligent transportation systems, high-quality surveillance, and medical and automotive.
Perhaps nowhere will this intersection of big data and visualization be bigger than with AI. Experts are ready for artificial intelligence to become user-friendly and they all say it’ll be through visualization. Just wait to see what the new year brings.
Patrick Roland, March 9, 2018
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