Mastering storytelling through data visualization enables you to turn data into a message your audience can understand and use to achieve business objectives. Data analysis is essential to the modern ...

Show them your data visually, says Northwestern Professor Steven Franconeri. “People might think that visualizations are pretty and they’re icing,” Franconeri says. “That’s not true. They are ...

A wide variety of data visualization techniques can be used to help business users find the meaning in BI and analytics data. Visualization is a core component of the business intelligence process, ...

R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in the 1990s, ...

From COVID-19 data dashboards and election results to personal finance apps and social media analytics, visual representations of data are increasingly ubiquitous in day-to-day life and in business.

Imagine tapping into a raw data feed from a distributed network of IoT devices in a logistics center. The center is full of robots, employee work stations, and shipping and receiving docks. The data ...

Showing data in context, and using creativity to make that same data tell a story, can truly bring numbers to life. We can all collect masses of data, but it only becomes genuinely useful when we use ...

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 ...

Felice Frankel relishes an inspired handbook on the art and science of picturing data. Scientists, probably more than most, are aware of the ever-increasing presence of data visualization in ...

This story contains interviews with data visualization professionals Moritz Stefaner, Scott Murray, Benjamin Wiederkehr, partner at design and technology studio Interactive Things, data visualization ...