In this podcast episode, we tackle a difficult topic for a podcast, but Zak provides lots of expertise in this field and will introduce you to what visual analytics is and how it will help you.

Furthermore, we touch on questions like:

What is the difference that visual analytics plays in 'exploring/learning' and 'messaging'?
Why is visual analytics important? Why should I care?
How does the job of a statistician in visual analytics look like?
Is visual analytics purely descriptive and exploratory in nature?
What does the future of visual analytics in the pharma industry will bring?
How can you implement these approaches in your day to day work?
What tools are there for beginners, people with decent programming or advanced programming skills?
What are the other places to learn more about Visual Analytics? (IEEE VIS: InfoViz, SciViz, and VAST; Flowing Data; Perceptual Edge)
What you can expect from Zaks presentation at this years PSI conference in the wednesday morning session “A picture says more than 1000 tables- interactive data review using visual analytics”