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 ...

Data Visualization is a widely used technique for visualizing, analyzing, and presenting datasets using different types of graphs. It is an effective way to evaluate a large data set using pictorial ...

Regardless of whether you work for a print publication or for broadcast, chances are good that your news organization also has a website. One excellent way to enhance any story is to include some sort ...

“People are drowning in data—on the Web, on spreadsheets, and in databases on tablets and devices,” says Elissa Fink, CMO of Tableau Software, a Seattle data-visualization company that went public in ...

Entrinsik, developer of Informer software, has announced the release of Informer Dashboards. With a 100% Java-driven architecture and browser-based interface, Informer Dashboards allow organizations ...

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 ...

Most data are subject to uncertainty: the possibility that the true values may be different from our estimates. The unknown is especially difficult to escape in forecasts — of the weather, economic ...

Data visualization can change not only how you look at data but how fast and effectively you can make decisions. But investing in these tools can be expensive for beginners so here's a list of ...

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series in which we explore the world of data visualization, ...

With the 2012 European football championships now in full swing, the good folk at social media monitoring company Brandwatch created this neat little data visualization Web tool, which reels in what ...

Businesses have relied on experiences and intuition-based decisions from senior leaders for growth for decades. These methods, while still being highly valuable, have been augmented by data-driven ...

Imagine tapping into a raw data feed from a distributed network of IoT devices in a logistics center. The center is full of robots, employee work stations, and shipping and receiving docks. The data ...