A walk-through on producing these highly useful charts in Microsoft Excel Excel is an amazing tool in many ways. And for me, it’s still a go-to for complex data visualization. Even in a world where more sophisticated tools like Tableau, R or Power BI exist, Excel still has much to…

There are instances when a pie chart makes sense, but it takes a bit of modification and attention to get the most out of it — The “humble” pie chart (see what I did there?) really takes it on the chin these days. Mathematician John Tukey once said “There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.” And he’s not the only…

A model for getting the most out of your visualizations — Data analytics. It’s more and more popular these days, and is almost a new buzz-word around the water cooler. Every company wants to be “data driven” and likes to use words like “analytics,” “machine learning,” “AI,” “predictive analytics,” or any of a plethora of other terms. And certainly data analysts…