Visualizing Collections: Tools and Techniques for Practical Collection Assessment

Abstract

The ability to explore the visual representation of data and detect meaningful patterns and trends is becoming increasingly important to organizations. Effective data visualizations lets people look at large data sets to better understand and gain insight. The ‘Visualizing Collections’ presentation will provide an overview of how data visualization techniques can be applied to library collections data. We will demonstrate visualizations using Excel and Tableau, one of the newer tools on the market.