As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. You’ve seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type ...

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

Flip through ten pages of this issue of Nature, and your eyes will be drawn to headlines and images. In our information-thick, data-supported world, optimal representation is key. Yet many scientists ...