Dark Themes for Business Reports?
Dark themes for business reports? I’m currently reading a few posts by different people from the past year and trying to understand the reasoning for … Read More
Category: Data Visualization
How to Make “Cool” and “Fancy” BI Report
Your BI report isn’t “cool”? It lacks “cool” backgrounds, effects (3D, shades, gradients), and “cool” images and icons, etc.? Do you want to make your … Read More
Dashboards with Better User Experiences
Features useful for creating better user experiences: ➡️ Legends, labels that become visible during a mouse hover event over a chart element. For example, hover … Read More
Colors in Data Visualization: 200+ Years Ago and Today
Playfair’s charts, from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century utilized single-color hand-engraved copperplate printing with the following hand-staining … Read More
IBCS: how standardization streamlines understanding
💁♂️Question: I have found that many struggle to completely understand the meaning of an IBCS visual with so much “busy-ness” with labels and arrows It’s … Read More
How am I discovering new Power BI data visualization possibilities?
➡ I experiment and play with Power BI.➡ I follow people who experiment and play with Power BI.➡ When I see an interesting know-how I … Read More
Understanding IBCS
Many people are excited to see my IBCS-styled Power BI data visualizations. They look cool! However, not everyone understands why some columns are solid black, … Read More
Why is storytelling (not) essential for effective data visualization?
There are explanatory and exploratory data visualizations. One tells a story and therefore needs a story, while the other helps to find a story or … Read More
Which Chart Type is Better? A Dangerous DataViz Pitfall.
I’ve just (almost) fallen into a dangerous data visualization pitfall. It was a usual LinkedIn discussion of a data visualization experiment. I realize that the … Read More
IBCS and data labeling in interactive Power BI reports
International Business Communication Standards (https://www.ibcs.com/ibcs-standards-1-2/) recommends: “Numbers with more than three digits in charts and four digits in tables are hard to read; moreover, such … Read More