How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

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 ...

Uninterpreted data can be an overwhelming mess! Fortunately, visual tools can capably transform complex datasets into digestible insights that empower students, professionals, and educators to make ...

Did you recently read an article, report, or scientific paper and think, ‘I wish there was a picture or diagram showing this information, instead of a lengthy description’? Written text is often full ...

Scientists collect a lot of climate change data. With satellites, planes, field instruments and other technology, they monitor rising temperatures, changing snowpack and shifting precipitation ...

The two terms data analysis and data visualization seem to have become synonymous in everyday language in the wider data community. Numerous job adverts focus on data visualization skills while not ...

As human beings, it’s natural to be strongly affected by the visual, and across professions, people collect, work with, and share all kinds of visual data. Because we are all biased—based on our life ...