How to Take Your Data Visualization Skills to the Next Level

Sep 17th, 2019 / Dashboards, Data Visualization, Presentations, Reports
Enrollment is open for ‘Great Graphs: Transform Spreadsheets into Stories’! Not only does the course include 200 hours of training, 20 hours of videos, and 18+ guest experts, but I am offering bonus material this time around! Enroll in this course and take your data visualization to the next level. We’ll go over everything from choosing the right chart for your presentation to how to use psychology to fully captivate your audience. Enrollment ends on October 1, 2019.
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Could Your Long Report become a City Billboard? Use Data Viz Techniques to Create High-Impact Materials

Feb 5th, 2019 / Data Visualization, Reports
Do you have a long report that took a lot of time and effort, but you’re not really sure how anyone is going to use it? Annual progress reports, data publications, strategic planning documents… many of us spend a lot of time writing these documents, and they’re necessary to capture a lot of detailed information. Here is an example of how I turned a long report into accessible, graphic summaries.
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The Future of Data Visualization: Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

Jan 8th, 2019 / Dashboards, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Presentations, Reports
What’s in store for the future of data visualization? A decade ago, I celebrated making my very first 3d exploding pie chart for a report that I was writing. Nowadays, I can’t open my laptop without my jaw dropping on the floor as I scroll through site after site of data visualization masterpieces. How times have changed! In this article, we’ll celebrate data visualization accomplishments from the past 12 months and make predictions for data visualization in the coming 12 months (and beyond). I turned to YOU, the data visualization community, and listened to your feedback. I created a quick poll on Google Sheets and I also asked you to reflect on both Twitter and LinkedIn. Here’s what you said about the best data visualizations of 2018 as well as your predictions for the future of data visualization in 2019 and beyond.
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Five Simple Steps to Creating Home Visiting DataViz

Sep 17th, 2018 / Dashboards, Data Visualization, Reports
Here’s our second post about visualizing data for the National Home Visiting Resource Center. Here’s our second post about visualizing data for the National Home Visiting Resource Center. It’s intimidating to sit in front of a blank screen and try to start developing your report, infographic, or dashboard from scratch. What data sources will you include? How will you analyze the data? What type of graph will best present your results?
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