In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

Instead of telling people about a story/data/information, show them. Humans are inherently programmed to respond to the visual and our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Images seen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about digital marketing, data and privacy concerns. Any great story means visualization and detail. It takes the small ...

In 2010, there were a total of 131 confirmed, full-time business analytics university degree programs, including 47 undergraduate-level programs. When I wrote an article on this topic in 2017, that ...

Improving the quality of data visualizations can help in communicating results more clearly and transparently to other scientists, stakeholders and the general public. This course will use a workshop ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write statistically informed articles about MLS and the EPL Chris and I set about mapping each team’s finish position within ...

Data company Kinetica will ingest trillions of records of sensor data to create visual representations of the operating environment across domains. The Air Force’s digital directorate awarded a ...