The Wonders of Patagonia: Exploring the Massive Region Stretching From Chile to Argentina One of the best perks of having friends getting married in other countries is the built-in opportunity to travel—and that’s exactly the opportunity Grapher Product Manager Santiago Vivas embraced alongside several adventurous [...]
What Are the Benefits of Golden Software’s Technical Support? You may have noticed the trend—software companies are investing heavily in customer success teams to provide better support and experiences. A recent report by Bain shows that the share of US enterprise software companies with dedicated [...]
Designing Cool Data Visualizations: How to Engage and Inspire Stakeholders You deal with complex data daily, and finding ways to effectively visualize it isn't easy—especially if you’re speaking to a non-technical audience. The good news? It’s possible to create maps and graphs that are so [...]
When to Use (and Not Use) Topographic 3D Maps to Relay Data-Driven Insights When working on complex projects, you need to turn data into meaningful insights that people can actually understand. One of the best ways to do that? Topographic 3D maps. These visualizations bring [...]
Declutter Your Digital Files: A Guide to Efficient File Management There are only so many hours in a day, and your to-do list seems to get longer by the minute. Between managing projects, hiring or training staff, and juggling family commitments, organizing your digital files [...]
Inside Our All Hands Meeting: Team Bonding, Insights, and Inspiration As a company that values a customer-centric approach in everything we do, our goal is simple: to help you succeed as a scientist or engineer. Sure, we achieve that by providing data visualization software and [...]
Training Tomorrow’s Hydrogeologists: Inside WMU’s Hydrogeology Field Course The Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Western Michigan University (WMU) offers something pretty special: a Hydrogeology Field Course, one of the few hydro-technical programs in the U.S. Launched in 1987, the course is currently co-directed [...]
The Mystery of the Missing Headstones: A Graveyard, WWII Bomb, and Surfer Some people head to graveyards on Halloween in search of a good scare and a story to tell later. We haven’t done that yet, but we did dig into our archives to unearth [...]
Essential Design Principles for Effective Graphing Graphing is a powerful way to convey complex information clearly and effectively. However, the effectiveness of a graph largely depends on its design. Poorly designed graphs can mislead or confuse your audience, while well-crafted graphs can be insightful and [...]
Best Practices for Gridding LiDAR Data Remember when converting randomly spaced data into a uniformly spaced grid used to take hours? You had to manually interpolate data to create contour maps and various visuals, and it wasn’t easy—especially if you had a large dataset. Thankfully, [...]