In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

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 ...

Instead of telling people about a story/data/information, show them. Humans are inherently programmed to respond to the visual and our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Images seen ...

Government is learning what open data means one step at a time. And on June 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took a large step forward in its own open data efforts by releasing a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write statistically informed articles about MLS and the EPL Chris and I set about mapping each team’s finish position within ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Some have certain implicit psychological associations. Red, for example, is often associated with power, love, and anger. Blue might convey ...

Improving the quality of data visualizations can help in communicating results more clearly and transparently to other scientists, stakeholders and the general public. This course will use a workshop ...