Many books and articles I’ve seen on drawing effective graphs say not to use grid lines. Why? Because they say Edward Tufte said so. In this post we’ll look at the exact words of Edward Tufte and see ...

Electronic health records currently handle data poorly and should be enhanced to better collect, display and use it to support clinical care, according to a new study published in JMIR Medical ...

A common complaint about EHRs is that they are tedious to work with and provide extraneous information at the point of care. “Redundant items such as laboratory results and copy-and-pasted nursing ...

RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Graphs and charts embellished with "chartjunk" may help rather than hurt people's understanding of data, a study at two U.S. universities indicates. It is therefore not ...