Teradata's Aster shows how the flowers of fraud bloom

Teradata’s Aster Data software is a lens through which data scientists can create visualisations of Big Data. Sounds dull, right? Not when you see the beautiful flowery images it creates. The images are simply astounding and you can drill down through them, clicking on points and paths, to get at the underlying raw data. Here …

[h4rm0ny]

Stunningly beautiful on many levels.

That is all.

[imanidiot]

Its amazing how the human brain has a hard time processing the hard data, but can instantly see what doesn't match the pattern once you process it into this form. Even cooler that somehow this processing makes it look beautiful to us humans.

[~mico]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Our brains are hardwired to seek patterns and try to predict trends and developments. When they succeed, especially if the task was difficult, we feel pleasure of the accomplishment. That's why we like music with complex, hard to predict, but nonetheless predictable rhythm. Same goes for images.

[Anonymous Coward]

Very pretty but I have one question

Was this Gold or Platinum Service?

[All names Taken]

Petri dish

It also looks a bit petri dish like with isolated communities spread widely and, for some reason, high density populations clustering together. Interesting stuff doodz!