How Old Street’s Marketing uses Custom Charts to Uplift Their Mood
What’s better than successful marketing activities? Successful marketing activities with data. To market a product well, you must learn it from A to Z. Whether … Read More
Data Visualization
Data visualization turns raw data into something that’s interesting, useful, and memorable. Find resources on how to tell compelling data stories with charts, graphs, and infographics, and why good data visualization improves decision-making.
2021 Christmas Stats Reveal How We Really Feel About Yuletide
Each December, everybody harps on about the Christmas charts. Well, here we have the only Christmas charts that matter. Hark! It’s Christmas Custom Charts. Glory … Read More
Beautiful Jira Wallboards for Remote and Office Workers
Traditionally, wallboards are an office thing. Aka big visual charts (BVCs) and information radiators, they display key team and project status information on the office … Read More
Brent Dykes’ “Effective Data Storytelling” and Why Being a Data Visualization Expert is Pointless
“My urgency to write this book increased when I realized how poorly understood the concept of data storytelling was and how the term was in … Read More
Are Pie Charts the Aquaman of Data Visualization?
“The pie chart is easily the worst way to convey information ever developed in the history of data visualization.” Walt Hickey Walt Hickey certainly didn’t … Read More
What’s the Best Way to Visualize Jira Projects in Confluence?
When we talk about reporting on Jira data, unsurprisingly we tend to talk about apps for Jira. However, many teams using Jira also find themselves … Read More
The Data Storyteller with a Dragon Problem (Video)
There’s more to data storytelling than presenting a grid of numbers. Or an array of pretty pie charts. Clue is in the name. Data storytelling. … Read More
The Data Storyteller with a Dragon Problem
The interviewer, a man with frightful eyebrows, looked sternly over his glasses at Willow Scoop. “We need you to tell stories about our data. Stories … Read More
How Better Calculations Lead to Better Data Storytelling
Whether you’re creating Jira dashboards or Confluence pages to report on your Jira data, it’s important that those views tell a story. You want your … Read More
When Data Visualization Really Isn’t Useful (and When It Is)
Introduction We know there are spreadsheet lovers out there. Good for them. But plenty of us get the ‘spreadsheet sweats’ when we’re expected to look … Read More