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

Big data isn’t a new thing; it’s the size of data that’s new. In just the last 2 years, we’ve generated a zetabyte of data from scanners, mobile devices, web connected devices, television, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the most powerful ways through which we convey the results of ...

The two terms data analysis and data visualization seem to have become synonymous in everyday language in the wider data community. Numerous job adverts focus on data visualization skills while not ...

Embedding analytics in applications is a smart way to expose insights and decision-making capabilities directly in employee workflow and customer-facing apps. Today, many organizations are developing ...

Organizations wanting their decision-makers to base actions on numbers, rather than hunches, better paint them pictures. Data visualizations – visual renderings of data sets – have changed the way ...

Thirteen teams participated in the first University of Chicago Data Visualization Challenge, a competition to create insightful, novel and well-designed visual representations of raw social science ...

Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...

Data visualizations can significantly affect how people understand and interpret data. But data visualizations can be biased and exclusionary, perpetuating inequity and harmful stereotypes.