Tired of your reports looking like dense, unreadable brick walls? Check out this video with quick tips on why and how to start intentionally including white space in your reports. Here is a little summary of what you’ll see in the video. In this video, Chris, of Data Viz Made Easy, delves into the often-overlooked […]
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How to create carousels with Canva
A carousel is like a social media slide deck. The format has been around for years, but it’s making a comeback. In today’s post I’ll show you how to create one using Canva. Do you remember slideshare? Basically it was a site that let you put your slidedecks on the web. Like a lot of […]
Design in Canva with Lorem Ipsum
Want some quick report design advice? Don’t wait until you are finished writing your report to design your report. Seriously, I have been in the data field for two decades working on research and evaluation projects. The vast majority of projects have waited until the very last minute to do any design work. The excuse, […]
Should DataViz be Easy?
For Christmas dinner this year I made my family spinach and pasta rotolo. It’s a baked pasta dish that involved making fresh pasta, rolling it flat, filling it with a spinach/ricotta mixture, and rolling it up like a jelly roll. Then it gets cut into small little scroll like pieces and baked upright with a […]
Canva Accessibility is getting better, but still needs fixing
I originally wrote this post in April of 2022. I’ll keep updating as time goes on and Canva adds improvements. This current update is from December 2023. What has changed since 2022. 1. Canva allows you to add alternative text for all your images. Not only that, but it has a handy little “Suggest for […]
More than 60 Holiday Data Comics
Are you looking for data and evaluation cartoons this holiday season? In this post I’ve pulled together all my Christmas and other holiday cartoons/comics I’ve drawn from across the years. With new cartoons added annually! Comics from 2023 Power BI and Elves Of course the elves don’t like PowerBI, but Santa paid a lot for […]