July 25, 2011December 10, 2011Dashboarding, Sticky, Visualization A few thoughts about gauge charts Let me start by saying an obvious thing: Gauge charts do deserve some recognition. Actually, they deserve a medal – a medal […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
June 27, 2011December 22, 2011Reading, Visualization What “Brain Rules” teaches us about Business Analytics The other day I took some time to review a few chapters of John Medina’s excellent book ‘Brain Rules: 12 Principles for […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 19, 2011January 8, 2012Visualization The Eternal Timeline – Visualizing Unstructured Information Is history boring? Sometimes. But it really shouldn’t be. There is too much to learn and there is an abundance of stories […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 10, 2011February 22, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization Waterfall charts, pareto analysis and beyond Waterfall Charts? Do you like pies? I do! But not for analyzing data. Pie charts are just too busy and too hard […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
April 25, 2011December 22, 2011Dashboarding, Visualization Scatter charts – Good for relationships SCATTER CHARTS – THE BASIC IDEA One of the interesting and really fun things to watch is young kids learning about cause […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
April 12, 2011August 8, 2011Dashboarding, Visualization What cartoons can teach us about information delivery A picture says more than a thousand words, right? Managers drown in pages of numeric reports. But as John Medina, author of […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
April 5, 2011December 22, 2011Dashboarding, Visualization Why bubble charts are cool Things can be complex. Especially when we look at multi-dimensional data-sets. The objective of charts is to visualize data in the most […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
March 21, 2011December 15, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization Why sparklines sparkle in a dashboard SPARKLINES SPARKLE One of the key features of the dashboard in any car is the fact that it is on a ‘single […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
March 14, 2011December 2, 2011Dashboarding, Visualization Hands-up! Here comes a bullet chart Executives often want to have a quick overview of some key metrics to find out what the state of their business is. […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
March 8, 2011January 8, 2012Dashboarding, Various, Visualization Charts? Yes, I know…. Dashboarding….Part 2. Yes, we do know that we shouldn’t eat those chips. Yes, we do know that we should read more books. […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email