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 ...

Researchers today have access to an unprecedented amount of data. The challenge is to benefit from this abundance without being overwhelmed. Data visualization for efficient exploration and effective ...

In the age of accelerated digital transformation, data is integral to day-to-day operations and long-term planning. To help transition innumerable data points into a more comprehensive narrative, ...

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 ...

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

Yes, I said it! So many of you are going gaga by visualizations; so blinded you forget the real reason for the work: Business Value. Some of you might even participate in contests of who can make the ...

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 ...

If there’s one thing that characterizes the Information Age that we find ourselves in today, it is streams of data. However, without proper ways to aggregate and transform this data into information, ...

The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the ...

There is a data revolution happening across the globe. From academics to politics, and everywhere in between, the world’s stories are being told through their datapoints. And, while using ...

Speculative visualization is a branch of speculative design, which deals with the “rhetorical strategy” used in design to bring awareness to social and political agendas (Kim & DiSalvo, p. 1). This ...