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 ...

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 ...

The startup Observable is trying to echo GitHub with a free tool and platform for creating, sharing, and tweaking data visualizations. Creating sophisticated data visualizations may not be for ...

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 ...

See our top data 8 visualization tools, including Tableau, Power BI and Google Looker, learn why we selected each and understand how to determine the best visualization tool. Data visualization tools ...

Yes, I said it! So many of you are going gaga by visualizations; so blinded you forget the real reason for the work: Business Value. Some of you might even participate in contests of who can make the ...

Big Data and the ever-growing access we have to more information is the driving force behind artificial intelligence and the wave of technological change sweeping across all industries. But all the ...

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 ...

Troy, N.Y. – Peter Fox and James Hendler of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are calling for scientists to take a few tips from the users of the World Wide Web when presenting their data to the public ...

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 ...