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.

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INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- John Wiley and Sons, Inc., today announced the publication of Data Points: Visualization That Means Something (Wiley, 978-1-1184-6219-5, May 2013, US $39.99). Author ...

Welcome to Skill-Based Learning, a short series brought to you by Women in Data — Philadelphia that will highlight some different skills required for being successful in data and tech and offer ...

DESPITE THE relatively recent advent of data journalism and visualisation, the practice of analysing data is an old one. In 1786 William Playfair, a Scottish engineer and secret agent, invented the ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Some have certain implicit psychological associations. Red, for example, is often associated with power, love, and anger. Blue might convey ...

Designers may be interested in a new modular information design handbook in the form of Visualizing Complexity created to provide a new work standard enabling anyone to visualize complex issues in an ...

These days we have a ton of geospatial data coming off the increasing numbers of satellites circling in our atmosphere, but it takes some serious processing power and engineering prowess to turn that ...