Nicole Sultanum says one of the fastest ways to understand information is by sight. "We're much faster at recognizing patterns," says Sultanum, a University of Toronto Ph.D. student in the department ...

Last week, I attended the Transparent Text symposium at IBM’s offices in Cambridge. The conference focused on text-based data storage, analysis, and visualization — awesomely nerdy stuff, in other ...

Data is everything in the business world. It tells companies where they’re succeeding and what they need to work on. However, having data isn’t enough. You also need the ability to view the data in a ...