Why Your Organization Needs Monthly Reports
Jan 21st, 2020 / Reports
Eight reasons that every organization needs monthly reports including: to help see progress, celebrate successes, be more efficient, and more.
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How to Adjust Your Data Communications Approach in University and Non-University Settings
Academic writing and business writing are different worlds. Here are 10 data communications strategies I wish I knew sooner.
More »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.
More »How to Declutter Your Cluttered Stacked Bars
Sep 24th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations
I have a love-hate relationship with stacked bars charts. They’re a great way to show part-to-whole patterns (like an easier-to-read pie chart). But, like pie charts, they feel overwhelming once we add a bunch of different categories. Are they the worst chart of all time? Perhaps. Here’s how to make stacked bar charts more bearable.
More »Five Simple Steps to Creating Home Visiting DataViz
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?
More »How to Transform Your Slideshow’s Bullet Points into Images
Jul 24th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations
A few weeks ago, I showed you how to transform allllllllll of your presentation’s information into just a few main chunks. You can visually chunk information by creating divider slides and by using consistent colors and icons. This post focuses on body slides. In particular, I’ll provide a few examples of how you can transform a list of bullet points into visuals.
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