In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

“Touch this dot,” the text reads. So I touch the tiny dot with my finger not knowing why. “You just left behind 100,000 bacteria,” the book explains on the next page. “Or more knowing you.” Stefanie ...

Gothic churches point towards Jerusalem… or do they? Data storyteller R.J. Andrews put this theory to the test. Andrews discussed his findings, among other adventures and discoveries in the field of ...

Introduction : ugly, bad, and wrong figures -- Part 1. From data to visualization. Visualizing data : mapping data onto aesthetics -- Coordinate systems and axes -- Color scales -- Directory of ...

While data visualization can seem like a modern design focus, it really has its roots in the High Middle Ages when a sudden rise in information and population resulted in the need to convey ideas in ...

Data visualization featuring 2018 statistics, from Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art by Diana Seave Greenwald (Princeton University Press, 2021; all images courtesy ...

The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard by Sandra Rendgen. Princeton Architectural Press, 2018 ($60). French civil engineer Charles-Joseph Minard became famous in ...

Visualizing time series data is often the first step in observing trends that can guide time series modeling and analysis. As time series data analysis becomes more essential in applications across ...

See our top data 8 visualization tools, including Tableau, Power BI and Google Looker, learn why we selected each and understand how to determine the best visualization tool. Data visualization tools ...