However, in our collective infatuation with data (and obtaining more of it), what’s often overlooked is the role that storytelling plays in extracting real value from data. The reality is that data by ...

Much has been said about the proliferation of data and how this has led to various emerging specialisms, such as data strategy, data engineering, data management, automation and data sciences. Each ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. There’s a lot of talk about data. The rapid acceleration of ...

Data storytelling is an academic subject as much as it is a practical one. For example, a common question is whether one should use an infographic or another type of data visualisation. For Dykes, a ...

Numbers don’t lie—but sometimes they can be made to fib. As anyone in business knows, one of the greatest sources of danger is a large, complex, convoluted collection of data. Massive datasets can be ...

Nathan Yau's new book, Visualize This, shows how to use design to make sense of an information-flooded world And in a culture of equally increasing infographics overload, where we are constantly ...

Narrative Science, the Chicago-based company behind the Lexio data storytelling software, will join Seattle-based data visualization company Tableau Software under an agreement to be acquired by ...