Tag: <span>Guest Posts</span>

Reports Before (So Embarrassing) and After (So Exciting) Taking Great Graphs by Ann K. Emery

Oct 29th, 2019 / Data Visualization

Christine Leonard outlines the many ways that taking Ann K. Emery’s ‘Great Graph’s course has helped her to step up her game when presenting results through report style and color schemes, graphs and qualitative data.

Condensing Many Data Elements into an At-a-Glance Directory Using Symbols, Reference Codes and Colors

Oct 1st, 2019 / Dashboards

Guest author Anna Williams was tasked with developing a national directory of organizations working on sexual and reproductive health for one of the United Nations’ country offices. In this blog post, Anna gives you a behind-the-scenes peek at that searchable Excel database.

Three Ways Intentional Data Viz Has Elevated My Work

Sep 26th, 2019 / Data Visualization, Reports

Are your dot plots due for an update? Do they depict the data in a positive and easy-to-understand way? Kathy Dowell shares how to spruce up your dot plots so that your audience is engaged and going away informed. She highlights that your report cover makes all the difference in engaging your audience or your report landing on a shelf unread. Kathy, a student of Ann’s, shares how being enrolled in Ann’s courses was just the inspiration she needed to take her work to the next level.

Taking Federal Grant Data from Dull to Dynamite with Custom Visualizations

Sep 24th, 2019 / Data Analysis, Data Visualization

If you’ve ever worked with publicly available government data, you probably know the headache and eye strain that comes with trying to make sense of a huge spreadsheet. Guest author Megan Johanson explains how you can easily create a customized chart that will make your federal grant data conversations a breeze. Megan Johanson is the Data Analytics and Insights Manager at the Educational Service Center of Central Ohio. She’s also a student in Depict Data Studio’s hybrid synchronous/asynchronous training program.

Data Visualization = Special Powers

Sep 19th, 2019 / Data Visualization

I’ve long struggled with the challenge of presenting evidence more clearly. Many of us have data, but we don’t know what it tells us, how to make decisions, how to promote our programs.

How to Use an Iterative Process to Hone the Perfect Data Visualization

Sep 10th, 2019 / Dashboards, Data Visualization

To iterate with data visualizations is simply to make a starter visual, then repeatedly improve it. Then improve the improved version, then improve it once (or maybe five times) more.

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