McKinsey finds that analytics and Big Data are making the most valuable contributions in the Basic Materials and High Tech industries. The first chart in the following series of ten is from the ...

CEO Dave Fowler says Chart.io aims to remove a lot of the friction involved in moving from raw data to intelligent visualizations. One big traditional pain point, for example, is that often ...

All this shows the magnificent volume, variety, value, and velocity of “big data.” The previous chart shows the tremendous growth “big data” is expected to experience in the near future.

To help the average person understand big data and numbers, we often use visual summaries, such as pie charts. But while non-numerate folk will avoid numbers, most numerate folk will avoid pie charts.