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 ...
The popular expression 'a picture says a thousand words’ holds true when it comes to data. Human beings are programmed to understand visual information much faster than written text or spoken words.
Visualising data can help students and staff in higher education get useful insights into otherwise opaque data sets – affecting decision-making, improving understanding when teaching and effectively ...