According to Gartner Peer Insights Reviews and Ratings, Microsoft (Power BI), Tableau, and Qlik are frequently the industry leaders in analytics and business intelligence platforms. However, how do ...

The authors' prior article “Mastering Accounting Communication with Storytelling and Data Visualization” (May/June 2025) ...

Data is everywhere today. From the apps we use to browse social media to the online shopping purchases we make, our digital footsteps create massive amounts of data. Companies large and small ...

One of the most common clichés in the viz space is that “data visualizations are only as effective as the insights they reveal.” In this context, effectiveness is a function of careful planning. Any ...

At a basic level, data visualization is just presenting data in a visual way, but when we plot data, we’re usually trying to make a point or tell a story with images. Even this simple graph tells 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 ...

Purdue’s Data and AI Storytelling Certificate teaches online courses that combine data science, AI, storytelling, and visualization. The program includes three courses. Professionals can choose ...

Data journalist Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot at The New York Times, explained the basics of data visualization and warned against overcomplicating charts and data during a talk Wednesday. “Don’t ...

Awesome. You learned how to collect and store Big Data. Now comes the fun part: mining that data for gold and then spinning that gold into compelling business stories that captivate and convince. In ...

Some stories can be tough to visualize and make interactive on the Web. Many times, they involve boring data sets that are difficult to read, or aren’t visually stimulating enough for video or photos.