Researchers have developed a new method -- 'Pixel Approximate Entropy' -- that measures the complexity of a data visualization and can be used to develop easier to read visualizations. 'In fast-paced ...

Umwelt is a new a system that enables blind and low-vision users to author accessible, interactive charts representing data in three modalities: visualization, textual description, and sonification. A ...

Google's new Android app can record and measure your environment and then helps you turn data into graphs. The app, called Science Journal, is meant to "bring out the inner scientist in all of us" and ...

The principle goal is to develop robust methods that address the problem of reverse engineering data in charts in scientific documents to enable access to the underlying quantitative information not ...

Data science is continuing its positive trend at Northwestern, with the Department of Statistics launching a new data science major next fall. The department will also build on its data science minor ...

Data Science is one of the hottest new fields in technology, driving innovation both at technology leaders such as Google and Facebook, as well as in established markets such as security, healthcare, ...