One of the key challenges of big data is taking the enormous amounts of information and turning it into something useful that can be consumed and ingested by the human brain. This week, ...

The global ocean is the Earth's heating and cooling system, pushing balmy tropical waters toward the poles and bringing back colder, nutrient-rich waters. But modeling this system is extremely complex ...

Data visualisation and visual analytics techniques play an essential role in interpreting complex, high-dimensional information. By transforming raw data into graphical representations, these methods ...

Talking about large datasets with a variety of different variables interacting with each other can quickly get confusing for an audience. Communicating the value of the data or the specific trends ...

The t-SNE ("t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding") technique is a method for visualizing high-dimensional data. The basic t-SNE technique is very specific: It converts data with three or more ...

The Purdue visualization technique simplifies points on a map into boundaries with various segment widths, making spatial distributions of a large number of objects in different groups or over time ...

According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, companies attribute from 5% to as much as 20% of their claims cost to fraud. In a year’s time that adds up to a whopping total of $80 billion. As if ...

Network security has operated in the realm of configuration files, pull-down menus, and traffic traces, making it arcane and tricky to tackle. In many instances, graphical presentation of information ...

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 ...