Throwing light on a power company’s data

I guess even the guys who live and breathe data get lost in it sometimes.

At one power company that enlisted the help of Houston-area Visual Numerics, there was so much data that no one knew how to start pulling it apart. Only when company analysts saw it visualized did they know what questions to ask.

Marketing director Alicia McGreevey said, “There’s such a difference looking over rows and rows of numbers versus a 3D picture with peaks and troughs.”