Around 15 years ago, for biologists awash with data, visualization was often dealt with as an add-on, an afterthought. Fast-forward to today, and data visualization is making something of a comeback.

Visualizing.org, the global open data visualization platform created by Seed Media Group and GE, opened its World Water Day data visualization challenge today in collaboration with Circle of Blue, the ...

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 ...

The data can only be either text or numeric and the first row, the header row, must contain the units in parentheses. Once uploaded, you can select which type of visualization should be applied to ...

Another unique use for Uber’s data viz software – Minecraft visualization. deck.gl is a rich, flexible tool that according to Belmonte and Uber, has no real peers in the open source community.

Annotations serve to guide and explain the story to a user. Think about the purpose of the visualization. 4. Focus on what matters Keep the medium in mind. When presenting visualizations on mobile, ...