Data Visualization

This post is part of a series about specifications, requirements, work items and test-cases in the field of Business Intelligence solutions. First part is about why I hate and I’d not recomme…

Colors are important to making things look good, whether it's the clothes you wear or the presentation you give at work. But not everyone instinctively knows that orange and blue is a perfect combination. If you can't trust your own judgement, understand and rely on the basics of color theory to always pick the right colors.

Colors affect us in countless ways—mentally and physically, consciously and subconsciously. Psychologists have suggested that color impression can account for 60% of the acceptance or rejection of a product or service. Good color choices should never be neglected in web design.

Visualizing your data needs some strategic thinking. Learn more about the most common data visualization types and when to use them or not.

Informed decision making is a must in the digital world. Check out our BI dashboard best practices and start making better decisions today!

Welcome to the website for the 'Improving data visualisation for the public sector' project.

Hello Everybody!   Let me introduce you today the Ultimate Waterfall Chart, a Custom Visual by Dataviz.boutique, soon available in the gallery. Let’s have a more detailed look on my first example I have prepared. Its not a final dashboard, it just has the charts or features on it I want to explain. ...

Frank Coleman explains how to get results from data visualization and the infrastructure, skills, and tools necessary to create value.

Horizon graphs are an intriguing but initially confusing way of looking at time series. Once you get familiar with the layout, you can simply think of it as a more space-efficient way of rendering …

Pixar is the gold-standard in storytelling. With their 17 feature films, they’ve redefined how to create animated worlds and compelling characters. What if you could know the secrets of Pixar’s storytelling success? Now you can. Pixar announced recently that they would team up with Khan Acade

When we wrote the first installment of "Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources" the world was a different place. It was 2013 and we were all busy celebrating a new royal baby, adding the words "twerk" and "selfie" to our vocabularies, asking ourse

These sales graphs will help you quantify and keep track of the different parts of your sales funnel, so as to upgrade your sales processes.

An overview of Edward Tufte’s “slopegraphs”; their history; good and bad examples; when to use slopegraphs; slopegraph best practices. (from Charlie Park)

Daily and weekly sales reports make it easy to track your sales team’s performance. Find here 11 sales report examples to help you out.

What is a dashboard? It is, or it should be, a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and a

Asking the right data analysis questions is crucial for getting accurate, actionable insights from your data analytics. Learn more here!

Here are the 12 best data visualizations that demonstrate creativity and innovation. See the best static & interactive examples of all time!

In this module you will learn how to use the Drilldown Choropleth Custom Visual.  The Drilldown Choropleth is a map visual that displays divided regions that are highlighted indicating the relative…

I recently came across a requirement to report the number of devices owned by customers, along with the age of each of the devices (how long it had been in service). The idea behind it was to be ab…

I’d like to drop some Power BI design practice knowledge. I’m going to share some of my best Power BI visual design practices I’ve developed over the years.

From sensitivity analysis to the magic of a 2x2 matrix to venn diagrams, learn how to convert your data/analysis into simple yet powerful visualizations.

Traditional dashboards are good at showing a full-status picture all at once. Visual analytics tools are great for flexible exploration. But neither of those solutions were designed to tell stories with data. Data storytelling is a new model for communicating information to an audience using

Learn everything you should know about data dashboards: why you need them, their benefits and dashboard examples & templates to illustrate.

Histograms require some statistical knowledge to grasp, and without the tidbits, the distribution chart looks like any other bar chart. So much more though. They can show a lot about your data, and…

Collection of data visualizations to get inspired and finding the right type.