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 ...

A good visualization can communicate business ideas with incredible power. For a long time, “dataviz” has been left to specialists—data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new ...

Imagine tapping into a raw data feed from a distributed network of IoT devices in a logistics center. The center is full of robots, employee work stations, and shipping and receiving docks. The data ...

Derek Steer is co-founder and CEO of Mode Analytics, a collaborative platform for business intelligence and interactive data science. Data is ubiquitous in businesses these days — but an interest in ...

A smart visualization can transform biologists' understanding of their data. And now that it's possible to sequence every RNA molecule in a cell or fill a hard drive in a day with microscopy images, ...

The startup Observable is trying to echo GitHub with a free tool and platform for creating, sharing, and tweaking data visualizations. Creating sophisticated data visualizations may not be for ...

Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren’t comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations. In a separate poll from ...

We’ve all heard that data tells a story. But sometimes that story is difficult to follow – especially if you’re not really a numbers person. As SEO professionals, we know what we do has an effect on a ...