“We’ll be releasing a chart every day for a year to move our attention beyond dramatic news headlines to the slow developments and quiet trends that go unseen, uncelebrated. Amazing things are ...

Data visualization is one of the most delightful trends in media. It’s perfect for skimming and can turn a boring economic analysis into a work of art. Many practitioners are looking for inspiration ...

The startup Observable is trying to echo GitHub with a free tool and platform for creating, sharing, and tweaking data visualizations. Creating sophisticated data visualizations may not be for ...

What makes a data visualization truly memorable? Is it the sleek design, the clever use of color, or the ability to distill complex information into something instantly understandable? The truth is, ...

Detail of “World Dashboard” visualization in “Knowledge Is Beautiful” by David McCandless (all images courtesy Harper Design) Something dynamic of McCandless’s data visualizations is lost in book form ...

So-called “publication quality” graphs are almost never the direct product of basic spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel; rather, researchers often export graphs and charts to a vector ...

Data visualizations can affect whether and how people understand and interpret data. Researchers and writers using data visualizations face choices about which data to use or emphasize. Those ...

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