Big Number Archives - Depict Data Studio https://depictdatastudio.com/tag/big-number/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:17:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Show MORE Points in Time On Your Graph!!! https://depictdatastudio.com/show-more-points-in-time-on-your-graph/ https://depictdatastudio.com/show-more-points-in-time-on-your-graph/#respond Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:08:00 +0000 https://depictdatastudio.com/?p=16274 Sometimes people worry that showing more points in time will make your graph ugly. NO!!! We can show plenty of context without making the labels ugly.

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]]> If you have TONS of points over time… show tons of data in your graph!

Too often, I see organizations show just a single point in time.

A single number is meaningless. We need at least two numbers — preferably three, four, or four thousand! — to make accurate comparisons.

In this video, I’ll try to convince you to show more points in time, not fewer.

What’s Inside

  • 0:00 Welcome
  • 0:18 The pretend dataset: Daily numbers for the past decade
  • 0:33 Types of workplaces that DO have daily data: Hospitals, universities, government agencies, public health, etc.
  • 1:11 Hesitancy to show lots of data
  • 1:28 Don’t just show 1 day!
  • 1:46 We need AT LEAST 2 numbers to make a helpful graph
  • 2:07 Show at least 1 month
  • 2:19 Show at least 1 year
  • 2:40 Show years and years of data!
  • 2:53 Hesitancy to show lots of data – because the x-axis gets ugly
  • 3:19 Excel how-to
  • 4:30 My wish: Getting you thinking
  • 4:38 Exceptions? When is it better for decisionmakers to have less context?

Download the Excel File

It’s here: https://depictdatastudio.kit.com/showmorepointsintime

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