Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick. Data is best understood when presented ...

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 ...

Due to one of the more unfortunate flukes in the history of mathematics, collections of objects that consists of points and connections are also called graphs. These kinds of graphs generally look ...

As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

Visualizing data is a task no longer strictly resigned for data journalists — it has become an indispensable skill for all reporters. Graphs and charts have been especially critical in coverage of the ...

In relational data visualization, the goal is to gain direct insight from the data, whereas in graph visualization the goal is to debug data or algorithms. East: As Michael has mentioned there are a ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.” Could Franklin, a founding father of the United States and considered a genius by many, have predicted that art ...

When you communicate with others you have some responsibility to ensure they understand your message. It doesn’t matter whether you share information at work, try to convince someone to buy your ...

We are pleased to partner with Carahsoft to expand Tom Sawyer Software’s reach in the Public Sector,” said Brendan Madden, CEO of Tom Sawyer Software. “This partnership represents a major step forward ...