Data visualization ought to be a shared area of interest among SCUPers in areas ranging from strategic and institutional direction planning, through academic and resource and budget planning, and also facilities planning and design. The video about data visualization we are sharing is titled Journalism in the Age of Data, which might appear to be divergent from the interests of the SCUP constituency, but it's an excellent primer on understanding the use of data visualization techniques to make sense of sometimes incomprehensible data.

Like it or not, this is something planners will have in their core toolbox in 10 years. And here's a link to a website where you can get some hands-on play with data visualization.