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 in which we explore the world of data visualization ...

New map shows where species will migrate as planet warms "This is the best visualization of any of these studies we’ve done. It’s much more compelling than our static maps," researcher Joshua ...

The natural world is under siege by climate change. Rising temperatures are pushing plants and animals outside their current range. To keep pace with climate change, species will need a path to follow ...

The map was a deeply political data visualization, ... Rainfall patterns in the West were cyclical, they argued, so the land there could certainly support grazing animals.

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 in which we explore the world of data visualization ...

Another unique use for Uber’s data viz software – Minecraft visualization. deck.gl is a rich, flexible tool that according to Belmonte and Uber, has no real peers in the open source community.

Data visualization is the act of representing data in a visual form, such as graphs, charts and maps. This enables people to glean insights from data more easily and make data-driven decisions.

However, interpreting large number sets can prove to be an arduous task which is why data visualization has become a powerful tool for researchers and policy makers. A recently released data ...

For the map, Keillor and her team used data from January 2015, when volunteers around the country counted 546,580 homeless people in the U.S. One dot on the map represents five people experiencing ...