Abstract: Classically, affordance research investigates how the shape of objects communicates actions to potential users. Cognitive affordances, a subset of this research, characterize how the design ...

Whether hitting a golf ball, catching a pass or skiing downhill, visualization increases repetitions safely without physical exertion while also reinforcing key technical and tactical focus points.

Visualization has become one of the most important training tools for athletes in bobsleigh, luge and skeleton at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. With limited access to real tracks, competitors rely ...

Interested in creating an informative, eye-catching chart, graph, or map to help explain a complex dataset? There are now several free courses to learn these skills, all offered on a new website ...

A new VS Code extension called Nogic visualizes codebases as interactive graphs and drew strong interest on Hacker News. Commenters praised the concept for understanding large or unfamiliar codebases, ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

Advanced data visualization and analytics have become central to enterprise IT strategies as organizations face rapid data growth from cloud services, software-as-a-service applications, edge devices, ...

Harrison Barnes used a visualization tool to help him improve. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Logan Riely / NBAE / Getty Images Editor’s note: This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...

Scott Nelson and Bob Rinaldi show how data visualization and AI are transforming operations like syndication, revealing hidden trends and driving smarter, faster decisions. When we were children, we ...

The social science data analysis and visualization minor introduces students to the fundamentals and current innovations of research and data analysis across social science disciplines. It equips ...