Enhancing the Vision for Managing California's Environmental Information

ion of data, so in the end, you end up with an abstraction of an abstraction, which creates an interesting challenge. -Nathan Yau, Data Points When done appropriately, visualizations allow us to prioritize certain facets of the data that provide additional value to the dataset beyond its raw state. In Figure 3, we see the product of vast quantities of data, distilled down to a simple, monochromatic comparison of two maps. They show the historical and present-day Delta as seen through the lens of marshes. What might have otherwise been lost in the details is made very clear through this visualization.