Speculative visualization is a branch of speculative design, which deals with the “rhetorical strategy” used in design to bring awareness to social and political agendas (Kim & DiSalvo, p. 1). This ...

R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in the 1990s, ...

Effective data visualization is about more than designing an eye-catching graphic. It's about telling a clear and accurate story that draws readers in via powerful choices of shapes and colors. These ...

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Flip through ten pages of this issue of Nature, and your eyes will be drawn to headlines and images. In our information-thick, data-supported world, optimal representation is key. Yet many scientists ...

What makes a data visualization truly memorable? Is it the sleek design, the clever use of color, or the ability to distill complex information into something instantly understandable? The truth is, ...

Instead of telling people about a story/data/information, show them. Humans are inherently programmed to respond to the visual and our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Images seen ...

When Stephen Goldsmith was deputy mayor of New York City in 2010 and 2011, the city was working on processes to make data available to the public. “We have now gone from fulfilling that transparency ...