Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Data visualization — and its close cousin, visual information design — is an often ...

Steven Franconeri is leading scientist, teacher, and speaker on visual thinking, visual communication, and the psychology of data visualization. He is a Professor of Psychology in the Weinberg College ...

For decades, visualization was the final stop on the data journey. It was optional—"good to have" on top of data analytics. Analysts would gather numbers, then clean and process, and only at the end ...