In financial markets, timing is often critical. Traders and analysts need to react quickly, and visual cues help them make ...

I propose the following law: “The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it should have been a line/bar chart approaches 1” I’ve seen the “shoulda been a line chart” ...

Data visualization is one of the most important tools we have to analyze data. But it’s just as easy to mislead as it is to educate using charts and graphs. In this article we’ll take a look at 3 of ...

Compound graphs, a frequently encountered type of data set, have a hierarchical tree structure with parent-child relations (‘inclusion’ relations) and non-hierarchical relations between leaf nodes ...

Now more than ever, visuals are used to relay facts and figures in business, politics and socioeconomics. Data visualizations, such as graphs, charts and tables, are commonplace in presentations. When ...

Whether you’re speaking at a conference or designing an e-book for your next marketing campaign, data visualizations are a compelling way to quickly communicate complex trends and ideas. It’s ...

You can make a line graph in Excel in a matter of seconds using data already entered into the spreadsheet. Line graphs can help make data easier to understand by creating a visual representation of ...

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.