The U.S. student loan debt has now reached a staggering $1.6 trillion this year and continuing to grow, many college graduates worry that they may never be able to pay off their debt. Over 44 million ...

“I start with the idea, and usually a question. Something that typically stupefies me, bewilders me, or frustrates me,” McCandless tells The Creators Project in an interview. “And then the question ...

It’s been said that we’re living in the golden age of data visualization. And why shouldn’t we be? Every move we make is potential fodder for a bar chart or line graph. Regardless of how you feel ...

Detail of “World Dashboard” visualization in “Knowledge Is Beautiful” by David McCandless (all images courtesy Harper Design) Something dynamic of McCandless’s data visualizations is lost in book form ...

The best infographics are clear, easy to digest, and eye-catching. But the process of distilling data into a neat little chart, bar graph, or venn diagram usually requires pages and pages of messy ...

In the year since The Oregonian/OregonLive launched its new Data Team, we've produced a huge trove of data visualizations, infographics, maps and searchable databases. Many of these items were ...

Linda Hofschire knew something had to be done. An analyst at Library Research Service at Colorado State Library (CSL), Hofschire says that her colleagues had been collecting school library impact ...

It’s often said that we live in a time of omnipresent data visualization—a Golden Age of Infographics, if you will—but you don't get too far into Graphic Presentation, written in 1939 by graphics ...

Last week, we wrote about our loathing of pie charts. That piece seems to have struck a nerve, so it's about time we addressed a second major beef with modern data visualization: infographics have ...

If you’ve seen fewer experimental data visualizations lately, it’s only because the medium has grown up and gotten a job. From 2010-2015: Query 1: Yearly, how many projects had the creative field ...