Friday, February 19th, 2010
Monitors are not made of paper. But since real time and interactivity only exist in digital form, paper is much less tolerant than you might think. Our wish is to combine the advantages of both media forms.
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
No one likes to get lost in a strange place. That’s why we pay extra attention to where we are headed. In fact, I learned a lot from traffic signs on a recent trip abroad.
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Today’s topic is a practical self-help lesson. It is safer to fly than to visualize the safety of flying. Colors have a lot to do with that. What can we learn from this? We don’t have to color everything.
Friday, December 25th, 2009
Whether it’s Barbie and Ken, Madame Tussaud, Playmobil or even the ‘Männleinlaufen’ in Nuremburg – people as figurines are either fun or educational. But as we can see from the following examples and exceptions, the exact opposite usually holds true for data visualization.
Friday, December 11th, 2009
Handelsblatt and the Wall Street Journal Europe, which are affiliated through a mutual cooperation, have recently relaunched their publications. Unfortunately, both instances are not exactly good news for our information culture. We’ll explain why in part 1 of our two-part series.
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Proofreading is just as important in charts as it is in texts – and there are plenty of examples to prove that. When it comes to presenting data, however, we also need to remember that the real value comes from good content in the proper format.
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Today, we’ll prove how useful data analysis truly is by answering a very current question: Should we even leave the house on this Friday the 13th, for example, to go analyze data?
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Hearing is one of our most powerful senses. We can close our eyes but
not our ears. If we want to take data analysis to the next level, we must also use our sense of hearing. Anything else would be rather shortsighted.
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Minard’s famous graphic of Napoleon’s Russian campaign tells the striking story of disaster. Like all graphics, however, it can only capture a fraction of the overall events. What can we do to combat that?
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Not every summit is a reason for optimism. And that’s exactly the problem when people are careless with line charts, which is generally the case. Here is an exception.
Death to business charts!
Why business charts must die
Graphic tables
Lay back and control
Industrial reporting
Production-like efficiency for management reporting
Can we drive companies
like we do cars?
Against dashboards, speedometers and traffic lights in Controlling
Business Intelligence 2.0
modest, serious, sincere
Rediscovering slowness
Sparklines make us John Franklins in management information.
Good reporting is boring
Looking for excitement?
Try a night on the town instead.
Are sports fans smarter
than managers?
Management reports need to become more dense and dashboards more rare
The myth of data mining
Why men don't buy beer and diapers at the same time.
Numerical blindness?
I wouldn't see a doctor, if I were you.
Dr. Nicolas Bissantz
is founder and General Manager of Bissantz & Company GmbH
and master of Bella, the info viz expert.
