It's easy to spot a "bad" data visualization -- one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided such decorations as redundant ...

Data visualization has grown more complex as the number of data points brought into the mix has increased. ... For example, the value “10,523” can be shown as “10K” on a bar graph.

J. Albert, R by Example, Springer, New York NY, 2012. Objectives. R is an open-source freely-available programming language; R has extensive built-in features that support data visualization and ...

But data visualization and data communication is not one of them. According to a survey of 2,000 employees in the U.S. and U.K.: More than 80% would like their bosses to share more business ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Of all the design elements in a given data visualization – the headings, the analysis, the comparisons, and so on – color is arguably ...