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Category: Visualization

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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March 3, 2011January 11, 2012Dashboarding, Sticky, Visualization

What photography taught me about dashboards

Photography and dashboards? Huh? Fire and Ice? Photography is a big and important hobby of mine. And it is a tough hobby. […]

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February 21, 2011August 13, 2011Visualization

Visualization of unstructured information

The other day, I attended a great exhibit that was put together by my friend Bernhard Lermann (@lermann) and his companion Jens […]

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November 8, 2010December 22, 2011Visualization

The power of Data visualization

We all know that visual information display is more effective. But yet, we still create, run & analyze hundreds of thousands of […]

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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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