Google does everything from building smartphones to creating driverless car companies. So it’s easy to forget that its official mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally ...

Effective data visualization is about more than designing an eye-catching graphic. It's about telling a clear and accurate story that draws readers in via powerful choices of shapes and colors. These ...

Flip through ten pages of this issue of Nature, and your eyes will be drawn to headlines and images. In our information-thick, data-supported world, optimal representation is key. Yet many scientists ...

Researchers today have access to an unprecedented amount of data. The challenge is to benefit from this abundance without being overwhelmed. Data visualization for efficient exploration and effective ...

Data visualizations can affect whether and how people understand and interpret data. Researchers and writers using data visualizations face choices about which data to use or emphasize. Those ...

Speculative visualization is a branch of speculative design, which deals with the “rhetorical strategy” used in design to bring awareness to social and political agendas (Kim & DiSalvo, p. 1). This ...

Nishith Sharma is the co-founder of frrole, a social intelligence startup. Raw data is boring and it’s difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something ...

Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak seeing every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. mem:o ...

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