Last year, if you had asked any finance professional about the state of the U.S. economy, most would have said they were bullish about where the market was headed. At the time, experts were seeing ...

Charts can mislead, misinform, and cause panic. Here’s how to become conversant in the language of data visualization—and better understand the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in the middle of an ...

Eyes on both sides of the aisle are glued to polling data and predictions ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. And, though the stakes in the outcome are critical, election forecasting is ...

Data visualisation and analysis techniques serve as the cornerstone for interpreting complex datasets across diverse scientific fields. These methods enable researchers to translate quantitative and ...

Most people have decades of experience looking at graphs. We see them in television reports, books, magazines, presentations at work, and on the stock market apps on our phones. On the surface, ...

The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard — with its clear numbers, and its red bubbles on a dark world map — has become the trusted picture of the pandemic for many reporters and audiences around the ...

Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data via visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps. It allows decision-makers to understand and communicate complex ideas to ...

In his new book, “How Charts Lie,” Alberto Cairo minces no words when laying out the dangers of poorly designed data visualizations. He identifies five broad categories of chart designs that aren’t ...

To help visualize how uncertainty affects polling data, Northwestern Engineering computer scientist Matthew Kay has turned to an old-fashioned game: Plinko. In the popular daytime game show “The Price ...