Truncated Y-Axis. One of the easiest ways to misrepresent your data is by messing with the y-axis of a bar graph, line graph, or scatter plot. In most cases, the y-axis ranges from 0 to a maximum ...

Data-visualization companies are creating buzz with visual representations that let you "see" your data and manipulate it—instead of reading columns of numbers. Big data is a big plus: You can ...

Transforming your impact data into sharp, strategic charts is easier than you might think. These simple visualization ...

We’ve all heard that Big Data is the future. But according to Phil Simon’s new book The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions, that may not be ...

Use a five-step method to ensure repeatable and significant results when using visualization to identify new subgroups and patterns in data. genprowebdirectory Facebook Linkedin RSS Twitter Youtube ...

Line charts, often used to show rates of change over time, are notoriously simple to skew in favor of a chosen narrative. Unlike the bar graphs above, it’s not necessary to begin the baseline at zero ...

Saying it should have been a line chart forgets two important aspects of communication which are sometimes as important as complying with the “rules” of data visualization.

The above illustration, for example, shows Kineviz’s GraphXR platform being used to explore Russian troll data that was recently published by NBC News of over 200,000 tweets using the graph ...

In today's fast-paced, "big data" world, static bar charts and pie charts just don't cut it, notes a recent report from Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave: Advanced Data Visualization, Q3 2012." ...