Few will deny that these days we’re all feeling pretty much overwhelmed by Big Data, even if it’s really only a ‘little’ bit of data. Every day, we’re bombarded with Facebook updates, tweets, emails, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the most powerful ways through which we convey the results of ...

The designers created over 25 miniature software applications to generate various parts of their visual world using real world data from NASA and other sources. They’ve also embedded some intriguing ...

This story contains interviews with data visualization professionals Moritz Stefaner, Scott Murray, Benjamin Wiederkehr, partner at design and technology studio Interactive Things, data visualization ...

Data visualizations can affect whether and how people understand and interpret data. Researchers and writers using data visualizations face choices about which data to use or emphasize. Those ...