The computer has provided a revolutionary tool to represent information visually. Its power is clearly demonstrated by the captivating power of today's video games. While usually describing a ...

Statistician Howard Wainer and psychologist Michael Friendly are numbers magicians — they make the invisible visible. Two of the world’s leading figures in the field of data visualization, they are co ...

Panic’s $10 Status Board for the iPad is an app that fits a niche so spectacularly, it leaves you kind of breathless. Designed to display and update data from a variety of sources, Status Board offers ...

You can easily create a graph in Google Sheets to get a visual display of your data. Once added, you can further customize the chart or graph so that it displays the information in the most ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Robert Simpson, A Post-Doctoral Researcher at ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Some have certain implicit psychological associations. Red, for example, is often associated with power, love, and anger. Blue might convey ...

Blind and low vision (BLV) people may soon have access to and more easily understand scientific data in museum exhibits through new “touchable sound” displays. Associate Professor Jessica Roberts and ...