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Category: Dashboarding

Everything related to performance & management dashboards.

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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About

Christoph writes about leadership, data, and endurance from Munich, Germany. With 25 years leading teams at companies like KPMG, Cognos, OSIsoft and msg global, he's learned that the best performance insights come from unexpected places—like ice baths and power meters.

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