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 ...

In San Francisco, it took a team of arborists a year to map every street tree in the city–124,795 in total. In New York, a similar tree count with volunteers took nearly two years. A new algorithm, by ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are 666,134 street trees spread out across New York City’s five boroughs. If that number sounds oddly specific, it’s only because the NYC Parks Department has spent more than a year gathering ...

Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Installation view, You Are Here NYC: Art, Information, and Mapping. Photo by Jason Mandella Photography. The Pratt Manhattan Gallery is showcasing a collection of ...

Today Unity announced that it has acquired SpeedTree creator Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. As a result of the acquisition, SpeedTree's technology will be fully integrated into Unity. The ...

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 ...

This article presents a method for visualization of multivariate functions. The method is based on a tree structure--called the level set tree--built from separated parts of level sets of a function.