At JESS3 we pride ourselves on leading the field in data visualization. While our work is constantly changing to meet the needs of our clients, from Google to Samsung, our goal remains constant: to ...

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. You’ve seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type ...

That’s an impressive testament to the power of data. But that power is limited when it’s not accompanied by strong data visualization. In fact, 89 percent of the companies surveyed said that managing ...

Editor’s note: Our friend Alberto Cairo is one of the world’s true experts on data visualization in journalism. He’s got a new book out, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (a ...

In this post, we’ll highlight a few of our favorite visuals from 2025 and walk through how we made them and what makes them successful.

Did you recently read an article, report, or scientific paper and think, ‘I wish there was a picture or diagram showing this information, instead of a lengthy description’? Written text is often full ...

Visualization has long been key in helping to understand biological systems, such as metabolism 1, signaling 2 and the regulation of gene expression 3. In recent years, the study of such systems has ...

Tree and sequence alignment visualizations have a long history. Evolutionary tree diagrams can be found in even the earliest descriptions of evolution, and their visualization still plays a key role ...

A new interactive visual depicts everything on the planet Earth, showing, with scientific precision and breathtaking profundity, how man-made things now outweigh all forms of natural life. Created by ...