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 ...

Before talking about best practices for visually presenting scientific data, it is important to summarize and define what tools are available. For most fields, graphs are the most common form of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Data visualization is a process in data analytics where visual representation communicates ...

Data scientist Edward Tufte (dubbed the "Galileo of graphics" by BusinessWeek) pioneered the field of data visualization. Tufte discusses what he calls "forever knowledge," and his latest projects: ...

Data rarely speaks for itself. Not cogently, anyway. That's what tables, graphs, and diagrams are for. The right visualization can focus a jumbled heap of facts and figures into something concise, ...

Through rigorous, data-based analysis, researchers and analysts can add to our understanding of societal shortcomings and point toward evidence-based solutions. But carelessly collecting and ...

In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network, she had witnessed thousands of sick soldiers endure ...

Victorian icon Florence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing. But Nightingale, who would have celebrated her 200th birthday on May 12, was also a statistics and data ...