As more media outlets embrace data, and data visualizations become integral to storytelling, it’s increasingly important to understand what makes an effective graphical presentation. While much has ...

Statistician Howard Wainer and psychologist Michael Friendly are numbers magicians — they make the invisible visible. Two of the world’s leading figures in the field of data visualization, they are co ...

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 ...

The field of network visualization and graph analysis has emerged as a crucial interdisciplinary area, merging advanced computational algorithms with sophisticated visual representation techniques.

Most people have decades of experience looking at graphs. We see them in television reports, books, magazines, presentations at work, and on the stock market apps on our phones. On the surface, ...

A new R package creates a simple graphical user interface for ggplot2—and it generates R code for the visualization you create Some R users become leery of graphical user interfaces. Pointing and ...

This sentence usually expresses certainty and conviction. It is a strong sentence. It is stronger than saying, “I heard it with my own ears.” Often, this sentence is interpreted as expressing the ...

Most people have decades of experience looking at graphs. We see them in television reports, books, magazines, presentations at work, and on the stock market apps on our phones. On the surface, ...