Data visualization can be a great way to drive numbers home and give them a visual weight mere statistics don’t have. At least, that’s what happens when they make sense. Sometimes visualizations are ...

Overview: Fair scales, readable colours, and simple layouts help audiences understand information quickly.Clean data and ...

Data visualizations can significantly affect how people understand and interpret data. But data visualizations can be biased and exclusionary, perpetuating inequity and harmful stereotypes.

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 ...

In his new book, “How Charts Lie,” Alberto Cairo minces no words when laying out the dangers of poorly designed data visualizations. He identifies five broad categories of chart designs that aren’t ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the most powerful ways through which we convey the results of ...

Now all your options are in one beautifully designed location: the Data Viz Project, which has more than 150 types of data visualizations, all searchable by type of dataset (chart, diagram, table), ...

The two terms data analysis and data visualization seem to have become synonymous in everyday language in the wider data community. Numerous job adverts focus on data visualization skills while not ...

David Gerbing, Ph.D, from Portland State University, explores professional, interactive data visualization for everyone ...

Airtable Inc., the $5.77 billion startup behind the popular productivity platform of the same name, today announced that it has bought data visualization specialist Bayes Technologies Inc. in its ...