Okay, long story short. If you are presenting to a public audience, don’t just plop the embed code on your website. And if you don’t feel like reading about why, skip to the bottom of the page for how I would suggest you embed Tableau dashboards (and lots of other embeddable things). Short story long? […]
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Find Excel Chart Formatting Annoying? Do this instead.
Ever get annoyed with formatting after you create a chart in Excel? It’s pretty easy to create a chart in Excel. A couple of button clicks and poof, there you go, chart created. But if you want to create a chart that actually looks good, you often have to do a bit more work. For […]
What you will learn if you join my workshop.
Just a note before I jump in. The pre-launch discount for my workshop expires tomorrow (9/8) at 12PM eastern. The workshop will never be cheaper! Over the years, when a colleague would take a workshop at a conference, I would ask them what they learned. And then I would ask, “was it worth the money?” […]
It’s not about the charts.
If you just want to create better charts, don’t join my workshop. I have no desire to compete with my friends Stephanie Evergreen and Ann K Emery on fundamental visual reporting and chart literacy. If you just want to code with R or Python, don’t join my workshop. Two suggestions. David Keyes for all things […]
Beyond Better Charts – My New Workshop on 21st Century Reporting
If nobody sees your amazing chart, can you still call it amazing? For data to have an impact, it needs to be the right data, reaching the right person, at the right time, and in the right format. That’s a lot that has to go right. And only a little of it has anything to […]
Why your online evaluation capacity building efforts are doomed to fail
This post was written for, and originally appeared, on AEA365. Hello my fellow evaluators. My name is Chris Lysy, and I am a freelance evaluator, designer, and trainer based in Cary, North Carolina. My consulting work involves helping organizations deal with the virtual shift (shifting programs from the “real world” to the “virtual world”). Over the […]