In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

Welcome to Skill-Based Learning, a short series brought to you by Women in Data — Philadelphia that will highlight some different skills required for being successful in data and tech and offer ...

Gothic churches point towards Jerusalem… or do they? Data storyteller R.J. Andrews put this theory to the test. Andrews discussed his findings, among other adventures and discoveries in the field of ...

Introduction : ugly, bad, and wrong figures -- Part 1. From data to visualization. Visualizing data : mapping data onto aesthetics -- Coordinate systems and axes -- Color scales -- Directory of ...