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Visual analytics: Exposing the past, understanding the present, and looking to the future Dan Ariely, founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight once posted on Facebook, “Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it...” This is especially true in Higher Education as much of the work being done to organize, connect, and analyze big data is happening in the for profit sector. This multimedia presentation (video, photos, and text) has three goals. (1) Discuss how the field visual analytics is tackling the problem of analyzing big data. (2) Explore when visual analytics is superior and inferior to typical statistics. (3) Tactics and tools for Institutional Researchers to use in their everyday work to change data into actionable intelligence.