For GIJN’s series on journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke to Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism and director of visualization, data communication, and information design at the ...

A map can turn a flat table of coordinates into something you can read in seconds, and that is the real value of geospatial data visualization tools. They help you convert geographic data and ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is decreasing. Sea ice loss has far-reaching effects on the planet because the ice helps ...

Mr. Rattner was counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. With unusual speed, and despite an armada of controversial provisions, Congress has birthed a sprawling, nearly ...

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Businesses have relied on experiences and intuition-based decisions from senior leaders for growth for decades. These methods, while still being highly valuable, have been augmented by data-driven ...

This is an opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization. Examples and explanations are below. The Scripts/ directory contains .Rmd files that generate the graphics shown below.

1 Department of Computer Information Systems & Analytics, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, USA. 2 Department of Economics and Finance, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA. Even though ...

Metrical and rhythmical poetry analysis is founded on the systematic statistical analysis and comparison of sonic devices (e.g., rhythmic patterns) that emerge from a combination of pre-established ...