In financial markets, timing is often critical. Traders and analysts need to react quickly, and visual cues help them make ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University student Andrew Eden entered his supply chain specialist internship at Goodwill Industries knowing that he had the process management skills to add value ...

For decades, visualization was the final stop on the data journey. It was optional—"good to have" on top of data analytics. Analysts would gather numbers, then clean and process, and only at the end ...

Have you ever recognized someone but had trouble recalling their name? Or perhaps you've felt as if you had met someone before but couldn't place where? It turns out that this phenomenon is something ...

Through rigorous, data-based analysis, researchers and analysts can add to our understanding of societal shortcomings and point toward evidence-based solutions. But carelessly collecting and ...

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

Planning and executing an excellent SEO strategy is critical for any digital marketing campaign. However, the effort requires data to tell the story in a way that resonates with our clients. But ...

Have you tried using the Information Visualization Process with some of your data? Have you applied the process with some of the Tools that I introduced? Or any other visualization tool? Today’s topic ...

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 that explores the world of data visualization, information ...

Instead of telling people about a story/data/information, show them. Humans are inherently programmed to respond to the visual and our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Images seen ...

Communicating data can feel like an overwhelming task. As journalists, how can we translate extensive numbers-based research and analysis into coherent, comprehensible reporting? Data journalists have ...

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 ...