Handling Data - Data Points: Visualization That Means Something - page 46

FIGurE 2-11 Parsed names in table format with Mr. People
Formatting with Code
Although point-and-click software can be useful, sometimes the applica-
tions don't quite do what you want if you work with data long enough. Some
software doesn't handle large data files well; they get slow or they crash.
What do you do at this point? You can throw your hands in the air and give
up; although, that wouldn't be productive. Instead, you can write some