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Giving Your Tableau Visualizations a Makeover: Custom Fonts

Nov 7th, 2017 / Dashboards

Whether you are using Tableau, Excel, or any other visualization tool, you will come across defaults. The problem with using something right out of the can is that it often does not speak directly to your audience. I’ll show how to use custom fonts in Tableau.

How to Enter Your Custom Color Codes in Microsoft Excel

Sep 26th, 2017 / Data Visualization in Excel

If you want to look polished, then you have no other choice but to customize your visualization’s color palette. Don’t worry–customizing your colors is an easy low-hanging-fruit edit.

How to Find Your Custom Color Codes with Paint

Sep 12th, 2017 / Data Visualization in Excel

Matt Feldmann with Goshen Education Consulting shares how to find your custom color codes with Paint.

How to Find Your Custom Color Codes with an Eyedropper

Aug 29th, 2017 / Data Visualization in Excel

You know you’re supposed to customize your color palette to match your organization’s branding. You know you can find your color codes in your existing style guide. But what if you don’t have a style guide? Or can’t find it because it’s buried within your intranet someplace? You can find your custom color codes with an eyedropper. Eyedroppers are color detection tools. You hover over your logo, and then the eyedropper does its magic and tells you the color code—within seconds.

How to Find Your Custom Color Codes with a Style Guide (and Decode the Jargon)

Aug 15th, 2017 / Data Visualization

“Ann, which colors should I use in my graphs?” You should start with your organization’s existing color palette. Every organization has a style guide and I’ll show you how to use it and decode the jargon.

How to Transform a Table of Data into a Chart: Four Charts with Four Different Stories

Jul 18th, 2017 / Data Visualization

A few weeks ago I gave the keynote speech at the Alabama Power Foundation’s Elevate conference for several hundred of their grantees and partners. What a day! As part of the most-practical-keynote-you’ve-ever-heard emphasis, we included makeovers from the grantees’ real projects. In case it’s useful for my blog readers, I’m sharing one of those makeovers with you today.

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