Data visualization can communicate emotions. An image, chart or diagram does more than simply representing numbers and facts. Emotion can be conveyed through colors, font choice, layout and can ...

Data visualization and information visualization tools are designed to provide a graphic representation of key points in order to communicate large data sets in an efficient and easy-to-read manner.

The use of these sorts of visuals can help key stakeholders see and act upon the information presented in a much more timely fashion. A great example of this is a 2012 multistate outbreak of E. coli .

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

Visuals and graphics have never been more important for scientific communication as they are now. One reason is because scientific data is more multifactorial and multiparametric than ever before, as ...

Data visualization takes your data (numbers) and places it in a visual context, such as a chart, graph, or map. It also helps create data stories that communicate insights with clarity.

Editor’s note: Our friend Alberto Cairo is one of the world’s true experts on data visualization in journalism. He’s got a new book out, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (a ...

Allison McCann, a visual journalist for Vice News Tonight, explained the role of data visualization in newswriting on Tuesday, saying that it should be used to augment the reader’s understanding ...

The R Graphics Cookbook uses an example of a bar graph for the number of 4-, 6- and 8-cylinder vehicles in the mtcars data set. Cylinders are listed in the cyl column, which you can access in R ...

FastCoLabs asked the authors of some of the web’s top visualization blogs to tell us their picks for the most iconic data graphics of the past 10 years. LOGIN SUBSCRIBE ...