Data Visualization
Articles on Data Visualization Best Practices, Strategies and News
Excel is Not a One-stop Shop for your Data Needs
Excel is everywhere and it has proven to be a valuable resource to every company across the globe. The problem is that many companies are using spreadsheets as their main line of communication internally. Excel is great at displaying all of the raw data you could possibly dream of, just ask any Data Analyst, who eats, sleeps and dreams of never-ending spreadsheets.
OLAP and Excel: Transforming Business Data Management
Excel reports are just not cutting in today’s world of even larger and more complex organizations. Thankfully, there is a solution that not only gives companies the capability to access large amounts of data at the speed in which there is no “waiting around” time, but it enhances the every day use of Excel. Let’s take a look at how this is possible.
Why Excel isn’t Enough for Businesses
The article, The File-less Organization: Why Excel Isn’t Enough for Businesses, from Dataversity.net is quite astute in the way it identifies Excel as a problem--noting that each manager gathers his or her own version of the numbers to bring to a meeting. And so in...
Data Visualization for Human Perception
Data visualization is the graphical display of abstract information for two purposes: sense-making (also called data analysis) and communication. Important stories live in our data and data visualization is a powerful means to discover and understand these stories,...
What makes a data visualization memorable?
It’s easy to spot a “bad” data visualization—one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided such decorations as redundant at best, useless at worst, labeling them “chart junk.” Yet a debate still...
Tips for Creating More Compelling Data Visualizations
OLAP.com Commentary: This article from Computerworld uses an example from Nathan Yau's book Data Points: Visualization That Means Something to show how to draw users to points of interest when presenting data visually. When you look at a visualization for the first...
