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 ...

I’ve been using D3, a JavaScript library for data visualizations (the three ‘D’s stand for Data-Driven Documents), for my own projects and with my students for some time. It’s a particularly cool tool ...

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 ...

Embedding analytics in applications is a smart way to expose insights and decision-making capabilities directly in employee workflow and customer-facing apps. Today, many organizations are developing ...

This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The visualization simulates the appearance of a black ...

If you’ve recently typed “weather” into Google search on your mobile phone, you may have noticed Google’s neat little interactive weather visualizations. The new weather visualizations give you a look ...

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 ...

Join the Disrupt 2026 Waitlist Add yourself to the Disrupt 2026 waitlist to be first in line when Early Bird tickets drop. Past Disrupts have brought Google Cloud, Netflix, Microsoft, Box, Phia, a16z, ...

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 ...