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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.

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.

Storyboarding Your Data Visualizations in Videos, Webinars, Presentations, and More

Jul 23rd, 2014 / Data Visualization, Presentations

I don’t care what you call it. Someday we’ll just call storyboarding good presenting. Here’s an overview of how to present data when you’re presenting by storyboarding your data visualizations in videos, webinars, presentations and more.