New York Times climate and environmental graphics reporter Mira Rojanasakul discusses how her team visualized the sea level rise threat from the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Visual charts help patterns and trends stand out faster than raw numbers alone. Different visualization types suit different data goals and levels of detail. Clear visuals improve understanding across ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Ultrasound (US) is widely used for guiding prostate biopsies ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...

Data visualization is a process in data analytics where visual representation communicates the data and insights to facilitate good data-driven decisions. Basically, data visualization is ...

For everything from styling text and customizing color palettes to creating your own geoms, these ggplot2 add-ons deserve a place in your R data visualization toolkit. Plus, a bonus list of packages ...

“A picture tells a thousand words.” This is very true in many circumstances but particularly for modern academia as a nicely illustrative figure grabs our attention and helps us explain scientific ...

Retrocopies, which are considered “junk genes,” are occasionally formed via the insertion of reverse-transcribed mRNAs at new positions in the genome. However, an increasing number of recent studies ...

Scientists use data visualization to quantify, interpret, evaluate, and communicate information. Recent research into the ways that people see and interpret colors is improving tools to convey visual ...