It doesn’t matter whether you subscribe to the “right brain” or “left brain” camp—the human mind is drawn to aesthetically pleasing shapes, colors, and patterns. And that’s exactly where data ...

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Tommy Peterson is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The National Institute on Drug Abuse ...

That’s an impressive testament to the power of data. But that power is limited when it’s not accompanied by strong data visualization. In fact, 89 percent of the companies surveyed said that managing ...

One of the most common clichés in the viz space is that “data visualizations are only as effective as the insights they reveal.” In this context, effectiveness is a function of careful planning. Any ...

Data visualization — and its close cousin, visual information design — is an often underrated skill; however, it plays a critical role in communicating information to an audience. More than just ...

Bioinformatician Viraj Muthye emphasizes the importance of visuals in translating scientific findings and engaging people ...

Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data to make conclusions about that information. It helps businesses perform ...

User-centred information visualization and storytelling is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates robust visualisation techniques with narrative insights to enhance the interpretation and ...

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 ...

Representing data in 3D images in order to navigate through it more quickly and access it in a more natural manner. Although the term was coined at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which has ...