Healthcare institutions have access to large amounts of patient data, but oftentimes it is so complex and disorganized that they spend more time managing their data than analyzing and actually using ...

There’s always something going on in the field of data visualization, but until recently it was only something that people in the field noticed. To the outside world, beyond perhaps an occasional ...

The field of data visualization is much broader than most people know, and exploring this breadth was one of our primary goals in compiling the projects described in "Beautiful Visualization." In the ...

One of the big themes from Health Datapalooza this week was the push to develop better ways to visualize data to make data streams more manageable, contextualized and make it easier to develop ...

Understanding data visualization technologies is critical to recognizing and responding to enrollment trends and patterns — particularly for community colleges facing precipitous decline. As a ...

Recently, in the world of healthcare IT, there has been an increased focus on the usability and design of EHR systems. From the American Medical Association's declaration on the need for an "Action ...

The Coral Triangle, tropical marine waters off the coast of Indonesia, Malaysia, and several other Asia Pacific countries, teems with life. The region is home to more than 500 species of reef-building ...

In the age of data analytics, tax departments are discovering why less is more. By letting the visuals do the talking, tax departments can explore vast sets of data, and simplify complex facts ...

When sketched quickly over coffee, genetic mutations are often drawn as a linear string of nucleotides, and one pen stroke alters one or several of those nucleotides. An epigenomic quick-sketch is ...