Data-visualization companies are creating buzz with visual representations that let you "see" your data and manipulate it—instead of reading columns of numbers. Big data is a big plus: You can collect ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-- Last week, I stopped by Alon Halevy's office to learn how to visualize large data sets onto a map. Halevy, who heads the Data Group at Google Research, walked me through the ...

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

CartoDB, an online map maker and business intelligence startup, wants to make it easy for anyone to communicate information with a map. Today the startup is unleashing a new feature, One-Click Mapping ...

The Google Tables welcome page. How to use Google Tables to visualize and manage data Your email has been sent Google Tables is a new data management and visualization tool. Jack Wallen helps you get ...

Success with a smart VF is less about the screens and more about how people interact with the data and each other.

Visualizing time series data is often the first step in observing trends that can guide time series modeling and analysis. As time series data analysis becomes more essential in applications across ...

If your work involves breaking down complex ideas or streamlining processes, Microsoft Visio is here to make your life easier. With this one-time purchase for $17.97 (sale ending Oct. 27), you can ...

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 ...

We’ve all heard the promises around the democratization of data — that everyone will be able to take the digits trapped in the columns and rows inside of spreadsheets and turn them into pictures from ...

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 ...