A good visualization can communicate business ideas with incredible power. For a long time, “dataviz” has been left to specialists—data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new ...

Effective data visualizations display complex information in a way that's easy to understand. Here's what goes into creating a good one. Data visualization has grown more complex as the number of data ...

Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick. Data is best understood when presented ...

Editor’s note: Our friend Alberto Cairo is one of the world’s true experts on data visualization in journalism. He’s got a new book out, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (a ...

Featuring data visualization expert Scott Berinato, author of the book Good Charts and Harvard Business Review articles including “Visualizations That Really Work” and “Dataviz: Making Smarter, More ...

When might a word cloud visualization be good to use? There are several use cases including customer/user mood on social media, escalating and/or de-escalating customer issues in call centers, ...

Datavisualization.ch has grown to be one of the most relevant and popular websites in Europe dedicated to developments in the field of data visualization. Following trends and reviewing technologies, ...

If patterns of globalization over decades could be plotted on a world map, what might they look like and what deeper insights might they reveal, wondered Miguel Centeno. Jeanne Altmann and Catherine ...

Cambridge, Mass. – October 16, 2013 – It's easy to spot a "bad" data visualization—one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided ...