The Overlooked Power of Time Formatting: How Better Temporal Visuals Improve Scientific Storytelling Time is at the center of nearly every scientific workflow. Groundwater levels fluctuate over months and years. Seismic activity unfolds in seconds. Environmental samples are collected seasonally. In geoscience especially, understanding change over [...]
How to Communicate Complex Data to Non-Experts Without Losing Accuracy In geoscience and engineering, complexity is the norm. Whether it’s subsurface modeling, geochemical analyses, monitoring trends, or terrain interpretations, you work in complexity every day. The problem? Some of the people making decisions about your projects [...]
IT Procurement Best Practices: A Guide to Getting the Software Your Team Needs You’ve done the research. You’ve completed the free trial. You’ve seen how the right software could streamline your mapping, improve your models, or cut hours from repetitive workflows. From a technical standpoint, the [...]
How to Make a Bar Chart That Informs & Impresses: Customizations That Work Bar charts are one of the most familiar tools in data visualization. They’re straightforward, recognizable, and effective at comparing categories. But if you’re wondering how to make a bar chart that truly informs [...]
Winning the 10-Second Window: Information Design for Posters at Large Conferences At large conferences, posters not only inform but also compete. They contend with each other and the many sessions running at the same time, trying to get attendees’ attention as they decide where to focus. [...]
Grouped Bar Chart: Its Purpose, Benefits, & Examples of When to Use It Grouped bar charts don’t always get the spotlight. In fact, they’re often confused with—or swapped out for—stacked bar charts without much thought. But these two visuals are not interchangeable. Grouped bar charts offer [...]
From Surface to Subsurface: How Alexey Shulgin Visualizes the Invisible When it comes to infrastructure projects, what you can’t see can cost you millions. Whether you’re building a tunnel or installing foundations for critical structures, each decision is a calculated risk, especially if the shallow subsurface [...]
Stacked Bar Chart: Its Purpose, Benefits, & Examples of When to Use It Stacked bar charts are one of those visuals that everyone recognizes but doesn’t always use to their full potential. At first glance, they look like standard bar charts, which can make it easy [...]
Log Scale vs. Linear Scale: How to Choose the Right Scale When you’re visualizing data, the scale you choose shapes the perception your audience has of your graph. It directly affects how trends, patterns, and relationships are understood. A subtle shift from one scale to another [...]
Webinar Recap: From Borehole Logs to 3D Models With Grapher and Surfer When you’re working with borehole data, you need to create visuals that clearly explain what’s happening beneath the surface. Without that clarity, even strong technical work can be misunderstood or undervalued by stakeholders. That’s [...]