Every year, Microsoft Research shows off its best stuff to the rest of the company, to see what might be commercialized. Dr Bongshin Lee's demo of SketchInsight looks to be a good bet, because it's ...

The content of courses and the methods by which students learn are crucial in teaching the life sciences (NRC 1999, NRC 2003). Skills in data analysis and graph interpretation are particularly ...

Data visualization is the presentation of data in a graphical format such as a plot, graph, or map to make it easier for decision makers to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data.

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...