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 in which we explore the world of data visualization ...

Learn how to make the most of Observable JavaScript and the Observable Plot library, including a step-by-step guide to eight basic data visualization tasks in Plot. Built-in reactivity is one of ...

Creative geographic visualization is situated at the intersection of geography, arts, and digital humanities. It emphasizes forms of visualization and mapping that preserve, represent, and generate ...

Scatter plots—which use horizontal and vertical axes to plot data points and display how much one variable is affected by another—have long been employed by researchers in various fields, but ...

It allows users to create beautiful dynamic maps, like this visualization of 50 years of Rolling Stones’ concerts or this map showing Iceland contour lines. And CartoDB wants to expand its target ...

CIMdata Inc., a PLM consulting and research firm, Tuesday announced the publication of a white paper on real-world applications of remote 3D visualization, as well as the release of the CIMdata ...

Chen said the Purdue visualization technique uses a specially designed algorithm that incorporates information about thickness, density and boundaries tied to data points. Objects can be grouped by ...

Metadata in Twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location, the language you ... just turned a raw sample of metadata from 280 million tweets into an amazing example of data visualization.