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.

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

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

Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data via visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps. It allows decision-makers to understand and communicate complex ideas to ...

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 ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Improving the quality of data visualizations can help in communicating results more clearly and transparently to other scientists, stakeholders and the general public. This course will use a workshop ...