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 ...

Data visualisation and chart analysis have evolved into essential tools for exploring and communicating complex quantitative information. Modern research within this field focuses on automating the ...

TL;DR: Get a lifetime license for Microsoft Visio on sale for $14.97 (reg. $249). How do you make data look good? If you have years of design experience, you throw together a quick visual. If you ...

Earlier this week, Google introduced a new tool, dubbed Fusion Tables, intended to bring the kind of cloud collaboration features to database sets that users now enjoy with Google Docs. It also adds ...

As marketers, it’s a never-ending challenge to get stakeholders to take action on our recommendations. But…I get it. It’s difficult to digest spreadsheets with thousands of rows of data like this: In ...

Matt Daniels created a brilliant data visualization that presented 26 years of hip-hop history in a scrolling timeline. I ended an article on the hip-hop timeline with a recommendation that listeners ...

The Washington Post today introduced its latest data-centric feature, “How To Read This Chart,” a newsletter that dives into the data behind the week’s news. Each Saturday at 10 a.m. ET, National ...

As coronavirus continues its inexorable spread across the United States, data visualization specialists and armchair designers alike are developing graphics to help readers make sense of it all. But ...