Treemaps, with their easy to understand comparisons of metrics, are a useful starting tool for marketers expanding their data visualization skills. Picking the right visual can provide a way to spot ...

Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick. Data is best understood when presented ...

Have you tried using the Information Visualization Process with some of your data? Have you applied the process with some of the Tools that I introduced? Or any other visualization tool? Today’s topic ...

Newsmap is a news aggregation tool that organizes news stories, by popularity and volume of reporting, in a visually pleasing treemap—making it extremely simple to see what's going on and how much ...

Charts are helpful for us to show information to an audience in graphics to make it easier to understand. There are a variety of charts available in Microsoft Excel, such as Pie, Column, Line, ...

Even when you are trying to understand what you think is a simple set of data, the challenge of making sense out of it can be daunting unless you can visualize it. But how to visualize it? Sure, you ...

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Do you like pie charts? Have you ever thought about replacing them with a bar chart? Or a line chart? Do you know when to use what chart? Here is a little table that you can use to make your choice: ...