You can tell when someone is getting their data viz eye well-honed because they start asking where ELSE can I include visuals that will better explain my work? That’s Sue. She had grown comfortable with high-impact, story-telling charts in the Results section of her reporting but…
Meg, an Academy student, sent me a great question for our monthly Office Hours call: How do I replicate this? Pretty cool chart, right? It comes from Global Web Index, who put out tons of relevant data in interesting graphs.
I am a data nerd. I grew up, professionally speaking, designing studies, collecting data, and trying to get people to make use of the analysis and results. After I married a graphic designer, I realized that no one was going to pay attention to my amazing, glorious, wonderful data if my…
Have you ever accidentally taken one step too far down the internet rabbit hole? This has happened to me more than once when I’m trying to google the solution to why my chart isn’t working. I click into a Q & A forum that teases the answer – but the…
When Jeff Bezos said in his 2018 annual letter to stakeholders, “We don’t do PowerPoint,” you could almost hear the stock price of Microsoft sliding downward. Presentation designers around the world started looking for second jobs. CEOs in other organizations started to follow suit, because whatever Bezos does is…
Here’s the thing: Your graph isn’t ever just going to chill out in your Excel file or Tableau worksheet. It’s going to live a life elsewhere, like in a dashboard, a slide, or a webpage. So when we make our graphs, we have to think about their future home environment.
Everyone can make great graphs. You don’t need a degree in computer science (and a minor in graphic design) to make charts that knock socks off. You don’t need to spend your already limited budget to outsource your graphs year after year. You can do it yourself…
Chart Starter Series Gotta make simple, clear, easy-to-understand graphs but intimidated by the software?Kickstart your charts with the Chart Starter Series. Enroll Now! Graphing software can feel mystifying and user-UNfriendly. But you can use the tools you have to make compelling…
If you believe data is powerful –as long as you can figure out how to communicate it effectively… Join the Data Visualization Academy. GET ON THE VIP LIST People who communicate data effectively change hearts and minds. They win recognition and…
While ANY chart can fight for equality, if you plug the right data into it, these four in particular make the story jump off the screen.
