To sustain user attention and drive audience engagement, journalists and news organizations should learn to use data visualizations. Data visualizations let you explain a set of data simply with an ...

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...

A few years ago I stumbled upon a study that tried to prove the significant difference between visual and textual information. According to this study, visual information -- when presented clearly -- ...

We all know it: Polish that resume all you want, but it’s gonna be “read” for 10 seconds, tops. So it makes a lot of sense to ditch the resume altogether, and create a chart instead. Via Patrick ...

Users of the Internet generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, on average, according to recent research cites by Domo. The report was based on publicly available data from a range of sources, ...

These days, everybody wants to throw around the phrase “big data” like it’s some kind of savior that’ll combat shorter attention spans and the demand for increasingly granular marketing messages ...

Every week for a year, designers Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec sent each other postcards charting something in their lives, from laughter to travel to phone addiction. The result, collected in ...

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Draw Something was downloaded 50 million times in 50 days. Users created billions of drawings, adding 3,000 new pictures every second. On March 21st, OMPOP, the company behind the game, was bought up ...