When it comes to visualizing data, there is no shortage of charts and graphs to choose from. From traditional graphs to innovative hand-coded visualizations, there is a continuum of visualizations ...

One of the most common clichés in the viz space is that “data visualizations are only as effective as the insights they reveal.” In this context, effectiveness is a function of careful planning. Any ...

Earlier this week, Google introduced a new tool, dubbed Fusion Tables, intended to bring the kind of cloud collaboration features to database sets that users now enjoy with Google Docs. It also adds ...

The need for faster access to business intelligence is reshaping analytics environments all the way down to the hardware level. On the storage side, modern number-crunching systems like Apache Spark ...

Data visualizations are beautiful, exciting ways to tell stories. But you have to choose carefully in designing a map or chart, and one of the biggest mistakes is misusing rainbow colors. Rainbow ...

Kinetica announced the newest release of its distributed, in-memory database accelerated by GPUs that simultaneously ingests, explores, and visualizes streaming data. Version 6.0 features advances in ...