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 ...

Data visualization is often described as part art and part science, and it’s true: Visual design and information representation are separate yet highly interrelated concepts that, together, create ...

Did you recently read an article, report, or scientific paper and think, ‘I wish there was a picture or diagram showing this information, instead of a lengthy description’? Written text is often full ...

Most entrepreneurs are learning the power of data in telling a story. And infographics, the visual representation of data, are increasingly popular as one of the mediums that tells a data story the ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 78, No. 5 (December 2011), pp. 774-787 (14 pages) In practice, scientists must convey data in a “representational style” (e.g., as a numerical array or visual ...

Visual cognition relies on changing representations of visual information. The dynamic nature of representations is demonstrated by new findings in human perception and attention showing that the ...