A new study suggests that giving students pertinent visual information, such as a diagram or outline, at the start of a lesson will lead to better understanding of that lesson. The study, by Mark A.

AbstractIn 1766, Thomas Cochrane entered the Edinburgh classroom of Joseph Black (1728–99) to learn chemistry for the first time. Cochrane was studying medicine, and, like so many of Black’s students, ...

Mermaid, the open source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language. As is often the case, Mermaid founder ...

Data visualisation and chart analysis have evolved into essential tools for exploring and communicating complex quantitative information. Modern research within this field focuses on automating the ...

Visustin is a coding utility that parses source code and turns the logic into flow charts and UML-style diagrams. The software reverse engineers more than two dozen programming languages, including ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “There is no such thing as an innocent map,” observes Philippe Rekacewicz in his catalogue essay that ...

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