As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

Instead of telling people about a story/data/information, show them. Humans are inherently programmed to respond to the visual and our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Images seen ...

Clear data visuals are among the most powerful tools a foundation or nonprofit can use to communicate progress, inform decisions, and build trust with stakeholders. A successful chart shows at a ...

Let's say you need to understand thousands or even millions of rows of data, and you have a short time to do it in. The data may come from your team, in which case perhaps you're already familiar with ...

As more media outlets embrace data, and data visualizations become integral to storytelling, it’s increasingly important to understand what makes an effective graphical presentation. While much has ...

Effective data visualizations display complex information in a way that's easy to understand. Here's what goes into creating a good one. Data visualization has grown more complex as the number of data ...

Visualizing data is a task no longer strictly resigned for data journalists — it has become an indispensable skill for all reporters. Graphs and charts have been especially critical in coverage of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Data visualization has become a hot topic and more and more blogs and books ...

“Flatten the curve”: It was the battle cry of 2020. Though the visual was first published in 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control, this year, it was turned into an animation and shared more than ...

In his new book, “How Charts Lie,” Alberto Cairo minces no words when laying out the dangers of poorly designed data visualizations. He identifies five broad categories of chart designs that aren’t ...