It doesn’t matter whether you subscribe to the “right brain” or “left brain” camp—the human mind is drawn to aesthetically pleasing shapes, colors, and patterns. And that’s exactly where data ...

You’ve seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type of varying weight and size indicating the relative usage of words. Tag clouds may be the most common example ...

Data is everywhere. Charts, graphs, and other types of information visualizations help people to make sense of this data. This course explores the design, development, and evaluation of these ...

That’s an impressive testament to the power of data. But that power is limited when it’s not accompanied by strong data visualization. In fact, 89 percent of the companies surveyed said that managing ...

Representing data in 3D images in order to navigate through it more quickly and access it in a more natural manner. Although the term was coined at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which has ...

One of the most common clichés in the viz space is that “data visualizations are only as effective as the insights they reveal.” In this context, effectiveness is a function of careful planning. Any ...

This sentence usually expresses certainty and conviction. It is a strong sentence. It is stronger than saying, “I heard it with my own ears.” Often, this sentence is interpreted as expressing the ...

Based on the problem I can then go through the information visualization process that you can see in the figure below: The following explains each of the steps in a bit more detail. I know, it might ...