INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- John Wiley and Sons, Inc., today announced the publication of Data Points: Visualization That Means Something (Wiley, 978-1-1184-6219-5, May 2013, US $39.99). Author ...

Tableau Software’s 8.2 update includes a variety of improvements — Tableau can now run natively on Macs, for example — but the new Story Points feature stands out. Story Points allows Tableau ...

In this example from Nathan Yau’s book Data Points: Visualization That Means Something, Yau shows how to ensure your viewers’ eyes are drawn to points of interest ...

Two new books help map out the danger zones of data visualization, and of the datasets themselves. The federal government has long produced data by the truckload, and the open-data initiatives of the ...

Scientists, probably more than most, are aware of the ever-increasing presence of data visualization in newspapers, television, online shopping, social media and even policy-making sales pitches in ...

Imagine tapping into a raw data feed from a distributed network of IoT devices in a logistics center. The center is full of robots, employee work stations, and shipping and receiving docks. The data ...

What makes a data visualization truly memorable? Is it the sleek design, the clever use of color, or the ability to distill complex information into something instantly understandable? The truth is, ...

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

Infection rates, recovery statistics and the geographic spread of the coronavirus are just a few of the data points that are changing daily, sometimes hourly. A visually rich report depicting the ...