While the paradigm of "more data is better" might look good from the executive suite, there's a challenge that many front-line business managers are encountering once they dig into this trove of new ...

Nishith Sharma is the co-founder of frrole, a social intelligence startup. Raw data is boring and it’s difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something ...

Qlik Sense Desktop is designed to put Tableau-style data visualization in the hands of users, minus Tableau's price tag Having a ton of data at your disposal isn’t much good if you can’t make sense of ...

Microsoft Research has released SandDance, a free data visualization app that lets you gain insight in your surveys and research projects. Simply fire it up in your browser, upload a data set (TXT, ...

The Web-based version of Tableau’s analytics system allows data visualizations to be published, reused, and embedded in Web pages as if they were YouTube videos ...

Visage makes infographics easy, and they customize palettes for free. If you’re an art director at a media outlet, odds are you have to assign and commission each data visualization you publish. That ...

We’re all collecting data – mounds and mounds of data. So, how do we use this data to make it worthwhile? Well, regardless of whether you’re presenting data to company executives or prospective ...

Information is Beautiful, the Web site on data visualization created by independent information designer David McCandless, soon will be giving a total of $30,000 in awards for, you guessed it, ...

Some stories can be tough to visualize and make interactive on the Web. Many times, they involve boring data sets that are difficult to read, or aren’t visually stimulating enough for video or photos.