Data-visualization companies are creating buzz with visual representations that let you "see" your data and manipulate it—instead of reading columns of numbers. Big data is a big plus: You can collect ...

A common challenge affecting many scientists, especially those working in the area of molecular biology, is the vast amount of data that is created by their experiments. With such a large volume of ...

We’re all collecting data – mounds and mounds of data. So, how do we use this data to make it worthwhile? Well, regardless of whether you’re presenting data to company executives or prospective ...

We’ve all heard that Big Data is the future. But according to Phil Simon’s new book The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions, that may not be quite ...

The data visualization blog Beautiful Data has some great stuff this week from the Strata Conference. The most recent post by Benedikt Koehler features a network map of the tweets from the first day ...

In the data-driven field of meteorology, scientists rely on the collection and intensive analysis of information to study weather. These methods enable recognition and prediction of weather patterns ...

Hollywood storytelling is reshaping the world Big Data. We’ve heard plenty about Big Data changing business, but here is an interesting angle on how the Hollywood business is reshaping Big Data. One ...

As one of the world's largest e-commerce websites, eBay analyzes huge quantities of data -- with data visualization providing valuable insight across the company An online marketplace with 108 million ...

How Big Data was able to help stop an E. coli outbreak, and what we can learn from that example. It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing about Big Data. It’s a broad term used to ...

Data visualization may not deliver revelation on demand, but diligent visual exploration can unlock insights that might otherwise remain hidden Data visualization is one of the hottest areas of big ...

Fall is just around the corner. Students are making their way back to college or embarking on a new educational journey for the first time. As bags get packed and parents shop around for laptops to ...