When linguist Lauren Gawne roams the valleys of Nepal documenting endangered Tibetan languages, she takes pains to distinguish each dialect's geographical origin. But when it came to producing maps of ...

Government is learning what open data means one step at a time. And on June 11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took a large step forward in its own open data efforts by releasing a new ...

Many people believe big data is key to solving national and global problems. However, interpreting large number sets can prove to be an arduous task which is why data visualization has become a ...

You may not be aware, but Uber offers an open source version of the data visualization framework it uses internally, called deck.gl. The tool was made available to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Heat maps or points on a map can be simple and typically effective ways to visualize spatial data sets. But when that data involves many different types of objects – such as ...

Using data from the widely circulated Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracking map, a cross-disciplinary team of JHU researchers recently began developing an array of new data visualization tools to help ...

Google Maps is getting a few new features to help people better understand our burning planet. The first is a new "fire" layer in the main map view, which will let you view the exact boundaries of a ...