Two columns or rows of data in Microsoft Excel may contain useful information, but you'll just have a set of numbers. You can give spreadsheet viewers a graphical representation of those numbers by ...

Extracting insight from unstructured information is nothing new for Bloomberg. Every day Bloomberg uses automated systems to pull data from Word documents, PDFs, paragraphs of text, and tables.

Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...