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Stephen Few, Data Visualization, Eye Candy and the Pie

Stephen Few left a comment in my post “Is Data Visualization Useful? You’ll Have to Prove it“. We all have much to learn with Steve, so instead of leaving the discussion buried in an old post, I thought it would be interesting to make it more visible. Please read the comment then come here and … Read more

Categories Aesthetics, Context, Design Tags authors, management, pie charts, Stephen Few

Charts Are for Sissies (Grumpy Old Man’s Guide to Charts)

Making a chart is so simple that even a chimpanzee can be trained to do it – press F11 and get the banana (that would explain the poor quality of many business charts and presentations – and the raising banana consumption). To prove that they are better than chimpanzees at making charts, humans invented the … Read more

Categories 03 Beyond perception, Context Tags management

Data Visualization: Who Needs a Reality Check?

According to Stephen Few, the founders of Tableau Software made some assumptions about visual analytics’ adoption that we can summarize in a single sentence: analysts want to find hidden insights in large and complex data sets using new visual paradigms. Later on, they discovered that these assumptions were somewhat flawed, and that what people really … Read more

Categories 05 Data visualization, Context, Design Tags management

14 Misconceptions About Charts and Graphs

Many misconceptions plague the field on information visualization. This post lists some of them and tells you how to remove those misconceptions.

Categories 05 Data visualization, Context, Design Tags management

Information Visualization Is a Jigsaw Puzzle

One of the reasons why information visualization in business is so poor is because many managers are clueless about it. They really believe that a simple training course on Office tools is more than enough to create some nice 3D charts for a Powerpoint presentation (and they are right: that’s all they need, because that’s … Read more

Categories 05 Data visualization, Context, Design Tags management

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