Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick.

Here are five of the best free online data visualization tools to generate graphs and create different types of charts from your datasets.

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In the short PBS film The Art of Data Visualization, Tufte reaches far back in time, before the mundane pie charts and bar graphs that school children are taught to decipher, finding the beginnings of ...

Explore 9 data science project ideas for beginners that can help build practical skills, enhance your portfolio and boost your job prospects.

Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems. Hannah Fry on the history of data visualization.

Writers offer conflicting advice on data visualization in blogs and books. I present an example where an alternative figure has at least as many problems as the figure being criticized.

Manuel Lima—a celebrated information designer who founded and heads Google’s data visualization team (formed in 2018)— has published Google’s Six Principles for Designing Any Chart, a ...

Popular Science assembled a panel of data-visualization experts—practicing designers at the forefront of the field—and asked them to rate candidate visualizations, chosen for their novel ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in.