Making heads or tails from all the available data can be like drinking from a firehose. Simply overwhelming. Fortunately, there is a way to deal with this dilemma. As simple as it sounds—you need to narrow your focus on the things that truly matter. Doing so may only require as few as 4 data points. There are plenty of interesting examples to look at.
Jian Huang is the Chief Executive Officer at Survature providing the vision for reinventing the way the world experiences surveys. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee (UT) researching data analysis, visualization, and human-computer interaction. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Interior, Intel, NASA, and UT-Battelle. Jian received his PhD from the Ohio State University.