Accessibility Quick Wins: Remove Legends and Directly Label

Nov 30th, 2021 / Data Visualization
How do we make our graphs more accessible? There’s a misconception that accessibility takes all day, that’s it’s costly and complicated. Those are all false. Accessibility is woven into all my trainings, but since this is a topic I get asked about a lot, I decided to make a new talk that’s focused just on accessibility for dataviz.
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Creating a Community through Graphs

Sep 14th, 2021 / Data Visualization
Maddison Staszkiewicz is a Depict Data Studio student and evaluator. She was part of the 2020 Great Graphs: Excel How-To’s cohort and is sharing her experiences with us. She especially loved the community of the course which helped her to learn new techniques, perspectives, gain valuable feedback and much more.
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The Inside Scoop on Excel with Bill Jelen (Mr. Excel)

Jul 20th, 2021 / Data Analysis
I recently had the honor of speaking with Bill Jelen, a.k.a. Mr. Excel. He’s a big, big deal in the Excel community! I’ve internet-stalked him for years on his website and his popular YouTube channel and frankly, I’m still shocked he agreed to come speak with us. We talked about his background, favorite Excel features, how many of the more than 480+ Excel functions he actually uses and more.
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Escaping the Bar Chart

Jun 8th, 2021 / Data Visualization
Bar charts aren’t evil. But they’re overused. I talked about Designs to Start Using Instead at the DataScienceGO conference in April 2021. We talked about my three favorite techniques for exploratory data visualization– spark lines, data bars and heat tables– and then I gave them some different options for maps. Are you ready to escape the bar chart?
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