One of the most well-known early examples of data visualization was a flow map created by French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard in 1869 to help understand what Napoleon’s troops suffered ...

Today, many organizations are developing data-intensive applications that include interactive dashboards, infographics, personalized data visualizations, and charts that respond to a user’s data ...

We’ve all heard that Big Data is the future. But according to Phil Simon’s new book The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions, that may not be ...

It's early days, but examples of 3D data visualizations hint at big changes to come in how we interact with data. Recently, I spoke with Simon Wright, Director of AR/VR for Genesys , about one ...

The best data visualization tools should be easy to use (or come with a comprehensive tutorial), handle large amounts of data points, and be able to convert different data subsets into multiple ...

Learn how to make the most of Observable JavaScript and the Observable Plot library, including a step-by-step guide to eight basic data visualization tasks in Plot.

Data visualization transforms raw numbers into clear, actionable insights that are easy to interpret. Excel offers a wide range of chart types, including bar, line, pie, and scatter plots, to suit ...

J. Albert, R by Example, Springer, New York NY, 2012. Objectives. R is an open-source freely-available programming language; R has extensive built-in features that support data visualization and ...

If we want to have both knowledge and understanding of the efficacy of any of our work in higher ed, then we must design not only our data visualizations, but indeed the entirety of our efforts. In ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Of all the design elements in a given data visualization – the headings, the analysis, the comparisons, and so on – color is arguably ...