Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data on its own can be bewildering, apparently meaningless ...

Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization platform Tableau Software today introduced a major update that includes further extensions to its visualization capabilities and also promises to help ...

Although Microsoft Excel does has a limited set of visualization options for charts and graphs, this is not the primary function of the app itself so the functionality is understandably narrow.

Data visualization is an integral part of the data analytics process and humans often comprehend information better when it's presented visually. Data visualization allows analysts to represent ...

A map can turn a flat table of coordinates into something you can read in seconds, and that is the real value of geospatial data visualization tools. They help you convert geographic data and ...

This year's Tableau Conference, kicks off with its keynote and first day of sessions in New Orleans today. As part of the festivities, Tableau and open source geographic information systems (GIS) ...