Most of great tech companies have a tech blog to demonstrate their progress, and Google is not an exception. As I was browsing Google’s blog today, I found a very interesting article, which talks about a database called Google Trends, that collects real-time big data for various topics search through Google. The topic can be the popularity of one basketball game, the interest of one literature project over time, and elections in 2016. Also, you can view those real-time data in different formats, like line chart, bar chart, map and so on. With Google providing unlimited correlations and topics, we can retrieve useful data in a more convenient way. W
With Google providing unlimited correlations and topics, we can retrieve useful data in a more convenient way. What’s more, Google has also announced the acquisition of data analysis platform Kaggle this week, showing its great interest in utilizing data to deliver more valuable information.
Those two piece of news are enough to show Google’s focus on data. Thus for us, data visualization, the way to present a large amount of data will also become more and more popular and that it might be as common as Office tools in today. And I think it’s a good time to say that let’s grab this technique and move to the future along with great tech companies. 😀