With ever-increasing amounts of content to review, additional methods are needed to ensure that the important or most relevant items rise to the top of the display. We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. How do we display content made of words in a picture? This half-day workshop covers the basics of data visualization for big data sets, especially those of text. Using some traditional library skills with the new visualization techniques provides a powerful tool for conveying information to the user community.