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Category: Visualization

December 12, 2012December 13, 2012Analytics, Visualization

Recommended reading for December

Recommended reading December is always an interesting month. Analysts, software companies and journalists post a ton of predictions, reviews and opinions to […]

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November 30, 2012Analytics, Dashboarding, Visualization

Inspiration from Stephen Few

Greetings from San Francisco. I am back here to attend Osisoft’s vCampus developer conference. The conference kicked off with a true highlight: […]

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September 13, 2012Visualization

A few thoughts about gauge charts

Gauge charts A few days ago, I had a discussion about gauge charts. A colleague and I had reviewed a collection of […]

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August 15, 2012August 15, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization

5 lessons for using dashboard colors appropriately – Part 2

Selecting dashboard colors Last week, I wrote about the role of colors in photographs. A lot of the insights apply to the […]

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August 6, 2012August 6, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization

Dashboard color – Yes, it does matter! The basics – Part 1

  Dashboard color? Have you ever paid much attention to dashboard color and its effect on people? Colors are very powerful but […]

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June 7, 2012June 4, 2012Visualization

How to confuse and distract your audience with poor visualizations

Excuse me? We often talk about how to best visualize data so that the audience can quickly discover the most important information […]

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April 5, 2012Visualization

An Easter Egg hunt with three charts

It’s that time of the year. Millions of kids are excited about hunting for Easter Eggs. Why not do the same here […]

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March 27, 2012March 27, 2012Visualization

Why stacked line charts are useful

Stacked line charts Stacked line charts are a great and yet simple tool. Here is why. We often run into a situation […]

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March 22, 2012March 22, 2012Visualization

Watch that chart aspect ratio!

The chart aspect ratio The other day I reviewed a dashboard. It looked great. But there was a chart on the bottom […]

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February 28, 2012March 8, 2012Analytics, Visualization

Freedom to think?

Change that viewpoint Last summer I participated in a Bavarian wedding. As a photographer I was really excited to see three traditional […]

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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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