To sustain user attention and drive audience engagement, journalists and news organizations should learn to use data visualizations. Data visualizations let you explain a set of data simply with an ...

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...

Look, you know and I know that no matter how important a data set is, it’s next to useless if you’re not interested in actually delving into it. Such is the power and promise of infographics–a sexy ...

The best infographics are clear, easy to digest, and eye-catching. But the process of distilling data into a neat little chart, bar graph, or venn diagram usually requires pages and pages of messy ...

FindTheBest, the startup led by DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor, has built charts comparing everything from financial advisors to dog breeds to smartphones. And now that those charts can be ...

Infographics have become an increasingly popular data visualization tool which enable users to quickly give an overview of pretty much any topic. They rely on using images to accompany bite-sized ...

A few years ago I stumbled upon a study that tried to prove the significant difference between visual and textual information. According to this study, visual information -- when presented clearly -- ...

Linda Hofschire knew something had to be done. An analyst at Library Research Service at Colorado State Library (CSL), Hofschire says that her colleagues had been collecting school library impact ...

This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. The Vision Zero initiative began in Sweden in 1997 with the goal of eliminating fatal traffic and pedestrian accidents, and has since ...

Draw Something was downloaded 50 million times in 50 days. Users created billions of drawings, adding 3,000 new pictures every second. On March 21st, OMPOP, the company behind the game, was bought up ...

In 1943, as American businesses tried to guess whether wartime relief from the Depression would translate into postwar prosperity, the Tension Envelope Corporation printed this chart for customers.