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Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

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As Benjamin Delory started his paper documenting a new analysis pipeline to quantify plant morphology, he realized that one of the figures could pose a problem. The paper proposes a framework to ...

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...

Nowadays, it seems almost primitive to share visual ideas and data through the use of bar graphs, static pie charts and the like. Now, we can deliver visuals which are dynamic and interactive, ...

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When linguist Lauren Gawne roams the valleys of Nepal documenting endangered Tibetan languages, she takes pains to distinguish each dialect's geographical origin. But when it came to producing maps of ...