Semantic Table Interpretation is a critical process that transforms tabular data into rich, machine-readable semantic representations by associating table elements with concepts from established ...

In the quest to teach software to understand language, scientists have mainly focused on text as a source of data to help train their algorithms. Among other things, text is used to populate a ...

How to create accessible graphs, tables and charts. Graphs and charts can make data easier to read and more accessible to some users. But they must be made accessible ...

My readers did it again! They submitted 28 entries of ways to visualize the table in Figure 1. This part of the Graph Makeover Contest was much more challenging than the redesign of the donut chart, ...

A few days ago, I was looking for a very specific piece of data: the average age of professors in the US. I did a Google search for “average age of us professors” and, after the obligatory and ...

A once-valued skill has fallen by the wayside -- but our kids will need it even more than we do. You probably have a pretty good idea how well your teenager can write, how good her reading ...

Different types of graphs and charts are needed to present results from experiments. Graphs and charts need to be drawn and labelled correctly. Use patterns in the data to reach a conclusion in an ...

These days we use our mobile phones for everything; they have become an important part of each person’s life. Either for personal use or for working purposes, the phone has become a binder in today’s ...

If you’ve ever sat through a PowerPoint presentation or read a quarterly report, you’ve probably been bored by a chart or graph. Chances are, it was blue, red, and yellow on a gray, lined background.