Google does everything from building smartphones to creating driverless car companies. So it’s easy to forget that its official mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally ...

Submit your application for our first class by April 15! The MPS Data Visualization & Communication (DV&C) program equips you with the tools to translate complex information into powerful stories that ...

Andre Bianchi and Sophia Perez’s dashboard reveals historical trends and recurring themes in fight songs, which earned them a spot at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Data Viz Championship.

Effective data visualization is about more than designing an eye-catching graphic. It's about telling a clear and accurate story that draws readers in via powerful choices of shapes and colors. These ...

Flip through ten pages of this issue of Nature, and your eyes will be drawn to headlines and images. In our information-thick, data-supported world, optimal representation is key. Yet many scientists ...

Images of scientific results matter. They support data exploration and communication, and are particularly valuable in the age of big data. They help to transcend disciplinary, cultural and language ...

Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak seeing every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. mem:o ...

Data visualizations can affect whether and how people understand and interpret data. Researchers and writers using data visualizations face choices about which data to use or emphasize. Those ...