Beam does for charts what Venngage does for infographics as a whole. Which is to say, it makes the process of transforming data into useful visuals very, very easy. Beam is built on a template.

Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak seeing every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs.

Let’s say you’ve polled your customers and now have a spreadsheet full of data ... charts, graphs, and word clouds. From the demo I received, DataCracker appears to be dead simple.

He uses a simple bar chart to list the world’s top exporters of medicine in descending order. While he could have used a map, or a very busy pie chart with 10 slices to represent this data ...

Almost three decades ago, a simple chart known as the K-W-L was born — and it has helped millions of teachers help kids think and learn ever since. What is it and why is it so powerful?