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Life of Pie
This is not a story about Richard Parker. This post won’t make you believe in God. In fact, it’s not about that Pi at all.* Nor is about the other kind of pie — Apple, Pumpkin or Shepherd. It’s about...
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A MOOC and the Functional Art
What the heck, I hear you say, is a MOOC? I have to admit I didn’t know either, until I signed up late last year for Alberto Cairo’s experimental course at the Knight Center for Journalism in the...
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What to do with Charts
Charts are a problem. We’re always trying to display numbers and data, but it’s not easy to avoid a deluge of data. Thinking in terms of Evidence is good. If you believe this chart Visual Evidence is...
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How To Get Lost Using A Map
70 million people visit Paris each year. For nearly 2 million of them, jumping on one of the tourist boats that ply the Seine is a great way of getting around. That’s also where you will find a great...
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Look Underneath your Data
You’ve researched, analyzed and crunched the numbers. You have data. A lot of it. You’re ready to present. Before you fire up PowerPoint, and cut and paste from Excel, it’s useful to think about how...
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Numbers, Guts and Culture: How data visualization changes the conversation
Numbers have power, if you have the courage to use them powerfully. Take these two stories from opposite ends of the 20th Century. The first story is about a man in a steel mill. The second is about...
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How A Dashboard Changes the Conversation
Presenting data effectively changes the kinds of conversations that can happen inside organizations. Better presentations shape an improved culture of decision-making. Let me tell you about a recent...
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5 Great Excel Chart Tutorials
For data presentation, it’s the best of times and the worst of times. The best of times because you have more information, more insight, more data to present. The worst of times because sometimes those...
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