Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

Turn generic columns into custom visuals by adding floating totals, nesting series, and layering simultaneous data labels.

Data visualization has become a hot topic and more and more blogs and books are addressing this topic. The problem is that they give conflicting advice. One reason for this is that designers have ...

Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick. Data is best understood when presented ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...