Musician and physicist Domenico Vicinanza has described to BBC Radio 4's Today programme the process of representing information through music, known as "sonification". Mr Vicinanza, arts and ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

Why look at data when you can listen to it? That’s the question some scientists, composers, and programmers are exploring in an effort to present data in creative ways. When people “hear” data, the ...

Explore how society uses and interacts with data to understand and navigate the world. Humans have always used data to help them understand and navigate the world. In recent years, advances in ...

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...

Even as it transitions its core audience measurement service from its legacy panel to a "Big Data-plus" one, Nielsen this morning announced a new product fusing its national TV audience panel with GWI ...