Exploring Your Data

Nathan Yau  in FlowingData points to some teachers of information visualization banning the phrase 'exploratory data analysis' in dataviz applications.   As pointing to purpose-less interaction with your data.  Well maybe as the final goal of a school project.   But as a practitioner have always found value when that goal led to a structure to meet real value propositions.  And it also helps non-technical management participate in the process.  A quibbling over terms.  Call it 'Exploratory data value analysis'  if you like.