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Pie charts are a common choice for visualizing data, but their limitations often make them less effective in professional or technical contexts. As explained by Leila Gharani, pie charts struggle to ...

In higher education, we love an organizational chart. It helps us visualize structure, authority and responsibility. When coordination begins to fray or other challenges surface, it’s often the first ...

The morning after Election Day in 2020, FiveThirtyEight — the now-defunct political data site, where I worked at the time as a politics writer — published a chart on our liveblog. Within hours, it was ...

Tennessee is once again looking for a new head coach and wants to have a front office setup that puts that person in the best position to succeed. Amid a second head-coaching search in three years, ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

For a design firm—or any business, really—success hinges on countless factors, from smart hiring to solid business management. Unfortunately there’s no easily replicable blueprint that guarantees ...

Perhaps the most important development on the Toronto Blue Jays’ climb to the World Series wasn’t a shrewd trade or a splashy free-agent signing. It wasn’t even Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s $500 million ...

Billboard has revised its system of removing songs from the Hot 100 singles chart once they've gotten too old to qualify as contemporary hits. The measure, intended to shorten the amount of time ...

In this edition of Org Chart, Dateline UC Davis is sharing news of a number of recent appointments to lead various institutes at UC Davis, as well as leadership positions within the College of ...

Fear of the unknown is nothing new in business. But few unknowns are sparking more anxiety in the C-suite nowadays than this one: What impact will artificial intelligence (AI) have on our ...

The org chart — those endless boxes and arrows showing who reports to whom — may be headed for the shredder. The rise of AI agents could strip out layers of management and change how companies are run ...