Embedding analytics in applications is a smart way to expose insights and decision-making capabilities directly in employee workflow and customer-facing apps. Today, many organizations are developing ...

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.

Organizations wanting their decision-makers to base actions on numbers, rather than hunches, better paint them pictures. Data visualizations – visual renderings of data sets – have changed the way ...

When Stephen Goldsmith was deputy mayor of New York City in 2010 and 2011, the city was working on processes to make data available to the public. “We have now gone from fulfilling that transparency ...

I propose the following law: “The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it should have been a line/bar chart approaches 1” I’ve seen the “shoulda been a line chart” ...

Data is everything in the business world. It tells companies where they’re succeeding and what they need to work on. However, having data isn’t enough. You also need the ability to view the data in a ...

This second course of the Data-Driven Decision Making (DDDM) series provides a high-level overview of data analysis and visualization tools, preparing learners to discuss best practices and develop an ...

The National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting conference is an annual nerdfest at the intersection of technology and journalism. It brings together hundreds of tech folks who work in ...