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News, facts, figures: modern man is overloaded with information flow. The idea of this has long turned into a cliché but has not lost its relevance. This is why data visualization is needed. It captures attention, makes it easier to understand, and communicates to the audience what you want to convey in the shortest possible time.
Let's figure out what it is, what are the basic principles and why it is needed at all.
A human brain is an amazing instrument. It combines huge data storage with massive real-time processing. According to Scientific American [1], the memory capacity of the human brain was reported to have the equivalent of 2.5 petabytes (2500 TB) of memory capacity. This number was obtained by estimating how much information can be stored by 125 trillion synapses in the cerebral cortex.
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In this article we will analyze the popularity of various software programs designed for data analysis using recently published reviews. These articles and blogs were written in the last two years, covering a wide range of software tools written in C++, Java and Python. Such programs are designed for data analysis, data mining, statistics and data visualization. Here is the list of articles used in our analysis of popularity of such software tools: