Don’t let your message be lost amongst mountains of text. In most organizations, powerpoint has become the de facto presentation tool. When asked to run a meeting, we instantly open powerpoint to create a presentation. This may come as a surprise, but how often do we pause and ask the question – Is powerpoint the…
The problem with using so many colors in a chart is it introduces a sense of complexity. People perceive more aesthetic designs as easier to use. They tend to be more engaged with a chart if it appears pretty.
A waterfall chart is used to show how an initial value is increased and/or decreased by a series of intermediate values, leading to a final value.
A cycle plot shows both days of the week/month of the year effect and trend/cycle in data. Cycle plots were created by Willian Cleveland and his colleagues in 1978 at Bell Labs.
Indexing data is an effective method to normalize the data to a common starting point and observe how variables change over time relative to each other.
A connected scatterplot is a scatterplot with a third ordered variable used to connect the encoding between X and Y positions. This third variable is often time.
Let’s talk about what to use instead of dual axis charts. Here are 5 alternatives – Side-by-side charts. 2 charts labelled directly, Prioritizing and levelling, connected scatterplot and indexed charts.