Dear Data
Dear Data by Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi is not a book about conventional business charts and dashboards. This book delves into the personal data … Read More
Category: Storytelling with data
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
US Presidential Election
The following chart has been rendered using the most recent code version from my Github Deneb-Vega repository. Copy URL to this page/chart to clipboard
3D and animation in Power BI?
I was writing just a comment (about 3D cursed BI tools) in LinkedIn, but it’s going to be more than just a short comment, so … Read More
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
If your job is to talk with people about numbers (any numbers: profit and loss, salary, election results, number of stars in the universe) then … Read More
Stacked column chart conditional formatting (COVID-19 report)
I have updated my COVID-19 report today. New chart design: Old chart design: Old version of the chart worked, but it wasn’t perfect because of … Read More