In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network, she had witnessed thousands of sick soldiers endure ...

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 ...

Most data are subject to uncertainty: the possibility that the true values may be different from our estimates. The unknown is especially difficult to escape in forecasts — of the weather, economic ...

That’s an impressive testament to the power of data. But that power is limited when it’s not accompanied by strong data visualization. In fact, 89 percent of the companies surveyed said that managing ...

Data visualization is an important part of telling stories, but you can get lost in the weeds with D3.js for hours just to make a few simple charts. If charts are all you need, there are plenty of ...

Area(s) of potential collaboration: Would like to collaborate with faculty who are interested in developing grant proposals that involve GIS and network analytics. Primary research focus: I study how ...

TL;DR: Get a lifetime license for Microsoft Visio on sale for $14.97 (reg. $249). How do you make data look good? If you have years of design experience, you throw together a quick visual. If you ...