We all know that Excel can make some gorgeous charts and graphs, but if you are like 30 Rock's Liz Lemon and don't know your scatter plot from your triangle graph ("I don't know. It sounded real!"), ...

In my previous article, "How To Display Log Data Using Bubble Charts," I explained how bubble charts can be a convenient and useful tool for monitoring a datacenter. Equally useful for monitoring a ...

Statistician Howard Wainer and psychologist Michael Friendly are numbers magicians — they make the invisible visible. Two of the world’s leading figures in the field of data visualization, they are co ...

These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused by the COVID-19 crisis are felt far and wide, and the world's economies have taken a staggering blow. As with most things in ...

Ever since the introduction of the Google Knowledge Graph, a growing number of organizations have adopted this powerful technology to drive efficiency and effectiveness in their data management.

In the days before every piece of equipment was an internet-connected box with an OLED display, engineers had to be a bit more creative with how they chose to communicate information to the user.

Do you see it? The line graph, in the artwork above? Take another look. Whoa, right? Artist and scientist Jill Pelto combines art with scientific data to raise awareness about climate change. In this ...

For decades, enterprise data infrastructure focused on answering the question: “What happened in our business?” Business intelligence tools, data warehouses, and pipelines were built to surface ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

Over the past decades, researchers have painstakingly worked out the functional role of specific proteins in their system of interest and characterized details of their interaction partners and the ...