By: Georgia Lobb Last year, the NYPD issued over 70,000 speeding violations to automobile drivers. A scary reality about that statistic is that a large percentage those violations took place near ...

Even in charts and graphs, using colors in a common way can go a long way to achieving visual consistency. As noted in the pie chart section, the largest piece of data should always start at the top ...

The Circle Graph and Pie Chart . No one really knows how Playfair dreamt up the pie chart. Some wonder whether it’d always been around—and if Playfair was just the first to actually publish one.

The success of Facebook comes down to the concept of the social graph. The geeks explain it this way: It draws an edge between you and the people, places, and things you interact with online.