Flip through ten pages of this issue of Nature, and your eyes will be drawn to headlines and images. In our information-thick, data-supported world, optimal representation is key. Yet many scientists ...

You may not be aware, but Uber offers an open source version of the data visualization framework it uses internally, called deck.gl. The tool was made available to ...

When a meteorite fell on Russia in February this year, surprising many in the city of Chelyabinsk and the rest of the world, several questions arose: How often does this happen? When was the last time ...

Nishith Sharma is the co-founder of frrole, a social intelligence startup. Raw data is boring and it’s difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something ...

Many people believe big data is key to solving national and global problems. However, interpreting large number sets can prove to be an arduous task which is why data visualization has become a ...

Visualization has long been key in helping to understand biological systems, such as metabolism 1, signaling 2 and the regulation of gene expression 3. In recent years, the study of such systems has ...

Kylin is an avid user of Android products and has been writing on Android hardware and software for over 5 years. He enjoys helping others learn new things that can help them get the most out of their ...

It doesn’t matter whether you subscribe to the “right brain” or “left brain” camp—the human mind is drawn to aesthetically pleasing shapes, colors, and patterns. And that’s exactly where data ...

Derek Steer is co-founder and CEO of Mode Analytics, a collaborative platform for business intelligence and interactive data science. Data is ubiquitous in businesses these days — but an interest in ...