Introduction -- Part One: Principles of data visualization. 1. Visual processing and perceptual rankings -- 2. Five guidelines for better data visualizations -- 3. Form and function : let your ...

In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

Now more than ever, visuals are used to relay facts and figures in business, politics and socioeconomics. Data visualizations, such as graphs, charts and tables, are commonplace in presentations. When ...

Data visualizations can significantly affect how people understand and interpret data. But data visualizations can be biased and exclusionary, perpetuating inequity and harmful stereotypes.