David Gerbing, Ph.D, from Portland State University, explores professional, interactive data visualization for everyone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about digital marketing, data and privacy concerns. Any great story means visualization and detail. It takes the small ...

Instead of telling people about a story/data/information, show them. Humans are inherently programmed to respond to the visual and our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Images seen ...

There is a data revolution happening across the globe. From academics to politics, and everywhere in between, the world’s stories are being told through their datapoints. And, while using ...

Time may seem scarcer than ever, but fortunately technological advancements have presented auditors with many tools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of audits. One such tool is data ...

Accountants often are tasked with tracking the performance of their organization (or client organizations). That process usually requires referring to multiple sources to gain insight on the trends of ...

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...

Charts can mislead, misinform, and cause panic. Here’s how to become conversant in the language of data visualization—and better understand the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in the middle of an ...

Embedding analytics in applications is a smart way to expose insights and decision-making capabilities directly in employee workflow and customer-facing apps. Today, many organizations are developing ...

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 ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Some have certain implicit psychological associations. Red, for example, is often associated with power, love, and anger. Blue might convey ...