This paper discusses the use of tools for analyzing and visualizing data to synthesize knowledge from data. The first section notes the worsening problem of too much information, resulting from technology advances that have made fact or data look-up fast, efficient, and inexpensive. The second section presents a table of six data types (i.e., structured text, unstructured text, numbers, hierarchical, 2D structures, and 3D structures) and the ways in which corresponding tools enable new value to be extracted. The third section examines content, technology and integration, business and economic, and human issues that affect the success of analysis and visualization tools. (MES)