R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in the 1990s, ...

A good visualization can communicate business ideas with incredible power. For a long time, “dataviz” has been left to specialists—data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new ...

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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Derek Steer is co-founder and CEO of Mode Analytics, a collaborative platform for business intelligence and interactive data science. Data is ubiquitous in businesses these days — but an interest in ...

The startup Observable is trying to echo GitHub with a free tool and platform for creating, sharing, and tweaking data visualizations. Creating sophisticated data visualizations may not be for ...

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 ...