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Watching Leadership Catch the Insight

Have you ever worked for a client where you were going to have access to data so close to the chest that you had to sign a form acknowledging you could no longer trade their stock? That’s me, often, when I work with Fortune 100 companies. If I have to make legal vows in order […]

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Data Viz for Social Media

If you want your data to get consumed by more people, you have to design it for viewing on social media platforms where they consume visuals.

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Qualitative Street Data Visualization

Let me add three new qualitative data visualization ideas to your library: Placement Maps, Timeline Ticks, and Sliders.

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Details on Demand

We never hide data, we just don't blast it at our audience as soon as they sit down. Here are a few ways you can answer expected follow up questions using Details on Demand.

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Tight Five

Your boss has high hopes but a lot going on, so needs you to keep to a tight five. Long enough to say what needs to be said but short enough to preserve schedules and stay on agenda.

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Storytelling Structure

When your storytelling structure starts with the bottom line, decision-makers can do their job. Otherwise, you're asking decision-makers to become analysts.

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Ways to Show Change Over Time

If your data involves years / quarters / months / weeks / you see where I'm heading with this, you've got a story about change over time. What's the best way to visualize that data?

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Old Ideas That Don’t Work Anymore

What has changed the most in the past 10 to 15 years about what we teach people about presenting data? What used to be good ideas but aren't any longer?

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Which Viz Is It?

You need to be able to articulate why THIS chart versus THAT chart. No more internal office debates to settle. No more afternoons sunk into testing out every single graph type to see which one works. No more launching your data into the world with that nagging feeling that it could have been graphed better […]

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How to Make All Audiences Happy

"I want to better understand how to communicate data driven results with a wide range of audiences (from peers to senior level)." Get a free tool to help.

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