Our first data visualization tool is a good choice if you frequently create charts but don’t want to invest the time in learning a high-end statistical-analysis package. This program offers a wide ...

Infographics have become an increasingly popular data visualization tool which enable users to quickly give an overview of pretty much any topic. They rely on using images to accompany bite-sized ...

In the world of a highly visual web, data has remained largely static and visually uninteresting. Visual.ly aims to change that with extensive infographic aggregation and search as well as a set of ...

Infographics (or data visualizations) are all the rage in content marketing today, and Visual.ly is launching with hopes of becoming “the largest community for sharing, creating and promoting data ...

KISSmetrics, an analytics startup that wants to help you boost your user acquisition and retention rates by providing a more robust picture of how your customers are using your site, is today ...

Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, information graphics, and cartography. Complex ideas begin as simple drawings. And data-visualization—the use of visual ...

Google’s getting into the data visualization game: Yesterday, Google Labs unveiled the “Public Data Explorer,” which allows you to see animated visualizations of some of the most searched-for data ...

This is the information age, and our world revolves around data. For the past several years, big data–the industry collecting and managing huge swaths of consumer data thanks to new technologies–has ...

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 where we explore the world of data visualization, ...