Comments on: The Best Visualization Tool of All Time

By: Ann K. Emery | #DayDohViz: Play-Doh as a Tool for Data Visualization

Ann K. Emery | #DayDohViz: Play-Doh as a Tool for Data Visualization — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:08:21 +0000

[…] whose salespeople pretend that their software is a magic bullet for dataviz. I believe that the best data visualization tool of all time is your brain, and the second best is sketching with paper and pencil… or even Play-Doh! When I discovered […]

By: Ann K. Emery | New Year’s Resolutions to Further Your Data Development

Ann K. Emery | New Year’s Resolutions to Further Your Data Development — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:38:01 +0000

[…] One day soon, we’ll stop arguing about which software program is best, and we’ll agree that our brains are the best visualization tools of all time. […]

By: Datenjournalismus im Dezember 2014/ Januar 2015 | Datenjournalist

Datenjournalismus im Dezember 2014/ Januar 2015 | Datenjournalist — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:21:23 +0000

[…] ABER: Welches Visualisierungswerkzeug ist das Beste EVER? Dein Gehirn. Warum? Weil es einfach Fragen gibt, die nur du beantworten kannst. […]

By: Plieka

Plieka — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:57:11 +0000

Great post Ann, This is what students often ask, what to change to make it look better. Another post to add to the list.

By: Alexander Beck

Alexander Beck — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:15:19 +0000

Thanks Ann for this post. There´s so much theoretical stuff out there from Few, Tufte and Hichert about this topic. I think “it depends”! 🙂 So you have to try what fits best for your reports users, quickly deliver a 0.9 version of the report or dashboard and then iterate it together with the users!

By: Ann K. Emery

Ann K. Emery — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:33:21 +0000

In reply to Andy Cotgreave. I think we're still a few years away from HAL 9000. :)