Today’s post is a reflection on contemporary reporting, and how for many organizations, it looks almost identical to the approaches we used in the late 90s. In today’s post: Why I think it’s time to kill the “let’s just stick a pdf on a resource page” information sharing paradigm. What has changed in the digital […]
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How to make a pie chart in Excel
This is the fourth in a series of posts on chart design in Excel. In each post we will take on a different chart type. Today we’ll go with a chart that is widely used but often maligned by chart experts, the Pie Chart. What you’ll find in this post: An Oversimplified How To How […]
How to embed Tableau dashboards, without hiding them from Google.
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? […]
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 […]