Many people believe big data is key to solving national and global problems. However, interpreting large number sets can prove to be an arduous task which is why data visualization has become a ...

Using data from the widely circulated Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracking map, a cross-disciplinary team of JHU researchers recently began developing an array of new data visualization tools to help ...

A team has created an interactive dashboard called WhaleVis, which lets users map data on global whale catches and whaling routes from 1880 to 1986. Scientists can compare this historical data and its ...

When it comes to maps—a technology that is 4,000 years old—two completely contradictory things are true: Nothing has changed. And everything has changed. What hasn’t changed is maps are a language.

A new data project immediately hits you with a simple yet devastating message on its homepage: "The issue of modern homelessness is broad and complex, affecting too many of our neighbors and ...

When Stephen Goldsmith was deputy mayor of New York City in 2010 and 2011, the city was working on processes to make data available to the public. “We have now gone from fulfilling that transparency ...

The coronavirus crisis has shown how easily a poorly drawn or chosen map, chart, or data visualization can be misinterpreted, with potentially grave consequences. In one recent example, researchers ...

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 ...

Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, we have used them to guide ourselves across land, ...

London, circa 1854. A deadly cholera outbreak has caught the neighborhood of Soho in its teeth. The young, the old, the hale, the weak—this is an indiscriminate disease, and it’s moving fast. Hundreds ...