When it comes to visualizing data, there is no shortage of charts and graphs to choose from. From traditional graphs to innovative hand-coded visualizations, there is a continuum of visualizations ...

Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick.

Like the hip-hop visualization, Evolved uses a scrolling timeline to cover 60 years of hits. A sample from a song plays for as long as it held down the number one slot on the Billboard chart. The ...

Data visualization transforms raw numbers into clear, actionable insights that are easy to interpret. Excel offers a wide range of chart types, including bar, line, pie, and scatter plots, to suit ...

Charts The most obvious data visualization option in Excel is its array of charts. Over the years, Microsoft has added more and more chart types to Excel, from basics like bar, line, and pie ...

We’ve all heard that Big Data is the future. But according to Phil Simon’s new book The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions, that may not be ...

I’ve seen the “shoulda been a line chart” suggestion many times, most recently in Randy Olson’s excellent discussion of an award-winning visualization from the The Wall Street Journal.

Data visualization is one of the most important tools we have to analyze data. But it’s just as easy to mislead as it is to educate using charts and graphs. In this article we’ll take a look ...

Charts.css is a new data visualization library that relies solely on CSS and HTML. By avoiding the use of JavaScript/Canvas, it avoids many of the accessibility challenges in existing solutions while ...