If so, keep reading. These proven best practices will help. To keep things short, I’ve limited my suggestions to the two most commonly used data viz devices: pie charts and bar graphs.

One of the easiest ways to misrepresent your data is by messing with the y-axis of a bar graph, line graph, or scatter plot. In most cases, the y-axis ranges from 0 to a maximum value that ...

Pick a Graph That Displays a Hierarchy in the Data Four categories of graphs are suitable to display hierarchies in data: composition, distribution, relationship and comparison.

But a quality visualization of strong data will always be a useful tool for marketing and have value to a journalist. The following eight tips will help you to make your data visualization more ...

Flourish was announced in 2016 as a no-code data visualization platform used by the BBC and other news organizations.

To help the user understand what they are seeing, developers often turn to bar and pie charts. But that only works for discrete data; when at the links between data other tools come into play. We ...

If you’re a biomedical researcher and you’re using bar graphs for continuous data, Tracey L. Weissgerber has one word for you: “Stop.” Weissgerber, a physiologist at Mayo Clinic, is on a ...

Data visualization allows viewers to see the patterns in reams of numbers. It’s the craft of simplifying the complex. Done poorly, it confuses, misleads, or even lies.

Linkurious Enterprise is essentially a kind of search tool for your graph data. It’s compatible with the popular Neo4j graph database, and allows data to be explored via a Web browser.

There are some open questions within the data visualization community as to what benefits the third dimension might add to visualizing information that doesn’t have an inherent spatial component ...