Since March, Forbes readers have been switching on their webcams, watching Super Bowl ads, and seeing their smiles instantly plotted on line graphs.

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Instead of poring over pages of reports if I can see the data in bar charts, line graphs, pie charts or integrated with geo-spatial tools, I can make a lot more sense of it.

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