Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Using examples, journalist Alberto Cairo talked about ways that data, charts and visualization are represented and interpreted. He discussed ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

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.

We evaluated the use of data intensive case studies and small group discussion on students' quantitative abilities in a large environmental science lecture course. Students were asked to interpret ...

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 ...

You wouldn’t change up your entire production process based on sales from just a couple of locations, and you wouldn’t lower auto insurance premiums across the board because collision rates went down ...

In recent years, knowledge graphs have become an important tool for organizing and accessing large volumes of enterprise data in diverse industries — from healthcare to industrial, to banking and ...

Graph theory isn’t enough. The mathematical language for talking about connections, which usually depends on networks — vertices (dots) and edges (lines connecting them) — has been an invaluable way ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

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 ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of ...