 My name is Ian Flores. I am from Carolina, Puerto Rico. I am a double major in biology and sociology, and I study at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus. In my first semester, the first intro bio class I took was Introduction to Biodiversity, and the professor just got me with all the magic that she saw in animals and plants and bacteria and all their complex dynamics. I learned that you can actually combine pretty in depth math and ecology. The way you can explain complex relationships with such simple models or simple relationships with such complex models, it's so fascinating that it just got me. Each day, 2.3 trillion gigabytes of new data are being created. Just so you have an image of this amount, this means that if you would store this data in 8 gigabyte iPhones, it would make a stack of around 6 million and a half feet high. All this data is collected and compiled into multivariate datasets. To analyze these big datasets, we cannot use simple statistical methods, which leads us to need to use more complicated analyses which are not as easy to interpret. One solution to this problem is the use of different tools to help visualize these techniques in order to be able to get more out of the data. Currently, my internship is focused on creating different data visualization applications that will help the National Ecological Observatory Network visualize the field-based organismal data.