Reporters wrangle all sorts of data, from analyzing property tax valuations to mapping fatal accidents — and, here at Computerworld, for stories about and . In fact, tools used by data-crunching ...

Like much of the science-loving community, we’ve been caught up in Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey with Neil DeGras Tyson. It’s fascinating, thought-provoking, and entirely over our heads. If you’re like ...

Be honest. How many times have you watched that wild touchdown pass from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes to Chris Conley? Star columnist Sam Mellinger had a fantastic breakdown of the play, and ...

A new web app from Flight Stream provides a startling visualization of global flight traffic. The interactive rotating model predictably shows Europe and the eastern seaboard of the United States as ...

When it comes to dataset curation for public entities it’s generally up to them to purchase or learn software, run with it, and then publish their own results. Since public institutions generate a ...

The data visualization blog Beautiful Data has some great stuff this week from the Strata Conference. The most recent post by Benedikt Koehler features a network map of the tweets from the first day ...

Today, the activity tracking service Human released a cool visualization that shows all the physical activity of its users in a few major cities around the world for a 24 hour period. Whether or not ...

It was one year ago today that the Philae Lander bounced, spun, and tumbled across the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. To commemorate the historic event, the European Space Agency has ...

This is really cool. A Facebook intern (!) took the location and friendship data of Facebook users and put it all on a canvas. You end up with a global map of Facebook users and their connections. You ...

Here we see ol’ Mercator, if country sizes were drawn according to the amount of discretionary income spent on electronics by its citizens. As the world’s largest economy, the US being the biggest ...