Just as Pinterest has become increasingly important to marketers, it’s been said that the first company to own sentiment, or the interest graph, in a social context will be a force to be reckoned with ...

Say it with an Emoji: Mapping Sentiment During the #MeToo Twitter Movement is a data visualization project that explores how we use emojis to communicate sentiment online. Fully expanded network map ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wayne Rash is a technology and science writer based in Washington. “Right now we’re trying to catch disinformation campaigns,” ...

With the 2012 European football championships now in full swing, the good folk at social media monitoring company Brandwatch created this neat little data visualization Web tool, which reels in what ...

Visual analytics and interactive visualization have emerged as critical tools for deciphering complex datasets in social media and digital humanities. These techniques blend computational methods with ...

An information scientist turns Wikipedia into a data set. History, as a field, is pretty good at tracking concrete events. We know a lot -- though not, and never, enough -- about wars and plagues and ...