Challenges and opportunities with big data visualization

In this big data era, huge amount data are continuously acquired for a variety of purposes. Advanced computing, imaging, and sensing technologies enable scientists to study natural and physical phenomena at unprecedented precision, resulting in an explosive growth of data. It is a huge challenge to visualize this growing data in static or in dynamic form. Most traditional data visualization approaches and tools can't support at "big" scale. In this paper, we identified the challenges and opportunities in big data visualization and review some current approaches and visualization tools.