State and USAID embrace data visualization to promote missions

By graphically portraying a range of data sets, officials hope to tell compelling stories about global crises.

The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development are expanding data visualization projects in an effort to promote greater understanding of -- and foster solutions for -- global challenges ranging from hunger to anti-Semitism. Several officials discussed the effort during Tech@State, the department's event series on the use of technology. Read the whole story at Nextgov.com.