Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, information graphics, and cartography. Complex ideas begin as simple drawings. And data-visualization—the use of visual ...

A NEW BOOK REVEALS THIS SELDOM-SEEN STEP IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS For many artists, sketching is an everyday habit-a way of paying around with new ideas, trying out different subject matter, or just ...

Every good design should start with a sketch. The problem, as everyone knows, is that computers are killing sketching. Or are they? To begin with, it’s questionable whether there really has been a ...

Microsoft Excel is designed to organize and interpret small and large amounts of data. Building a curved graph in Excel based on X and Y data points is fairly simple. You begin by adding the data ...

Drawing and sketching apps present difficult interface challenges. On the one hand, they should maximize the space reserved for their intended use – drawing. On the other, they need to include ...

Morpholio has just released “Smart Hatch”, a new addition featured in its Trace app, famous for sketching and drafting, as well as storing and organizing ideas by layers. Making drawing details, ...

The Graph, a protocol for indexing and querying data stored on blockchains, plans to add AI-assisted querying with large language models as part of a suite of new features disclosed Tuesday. The "New ...