The FEMA data visualization tool breaks down how many disasters have hit each state and county, and what types of disasters were experienced. Click the image to visit the tool.

Types Of Data Visualizations For years, the easiest way to build data visualization was through adding information to an Excel spreadsheet and transforming it into a chart, graph, or table.

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Heat maps or points on a map can be simple and typically effective ways to visualize spatial data sets. But when that data involves many different types of objects – such as ...

If there’s one thing that characterizes the Information Age that we find ourselves in today, it is streams of data. However, ...

Heat maps or points on a map can be simple and typically effective ways to visualize spatial data sets. But when that data involves many different types of objects – such as planning resources for a ...

The X marks the mean (average) value. Dots represent outliers.

More and more, though, some reporters are using data visualization tools to find the story hidden in the data. Those tools help them discover patterns and focus their reporting on particular ...

Useful R packages in a handy searchable table. The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in.