When designers want to visualize changes in data, like in a heat map or a topographical survey, they often reach for the rainbow. The rainbow color scale is almost the default for visualizing ...

Scientists use color to visualize patterns in data. For decades, rainbow color scales were the default choice to encode continuous data, such as intensity values in images, event densities in scatter ...

The type of graph is important to show the meaning of the data in an easy-to-understand manner, but the color coding is also an important factor. Color coding can indicate that the data is of the same ...

Have you ever stared at a massive Excel spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows of numbers, wishing there was a faster way to make sense of it all? Here’s the good news: Excel 365’s conditional formatting ...

Colors are often essential to convey scientific data, from weather maps to the surface of Mars. But did you ever consider that a combination of colors could be "unscientific?" Well, that's the case ...

Last week we posted a map of the Rim fire's progression into Yosemite National Park from Inciweb. That map (see below) uses random, qualitative colors to represent the area burned by the fire each day ...

Public displays, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), are often used in urban green spaces. However, these display devices often tarnish the green landscape of urban green spaces due to their ...