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.
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Controllers are a lot like politicians. They don’t just want to spot and examine issues, they also want to take action and change things. To do that, they need more than convincing numbers – they need to find the right words as well.
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Design aid: We can use analog displays to synchronize some very sophisticated actions. And we can learn them more easily than robots can. But can gauges point managers in the right direction?
Friday, August 21st, 2009
We cannot statistically prove anything because the statistics themselves lack the power to do so. Yet people still continue to believe they can – mostly because they don’t know what significance means. What can we do to prevent this lack of knowledge from spreading even further?
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Statistical significance has an outstanding reputation. But does it deserve it? How significant is your knowledge of significance? Take this test to find out!
Friday, July 24th, 2009
When it comes to numbers, how do we find the right words? Should they “collapse”, “slide” or “explode”? I personally say – no. The ideal number of judgmental adjectives, superlatives and polemic descriptions is zero because we can always just say the number that we mean.
Friday, July 10th, 2009
When it comes to the amount of data in reports, all I can say is: the more, the merrier. If a report becomes hard to read, the design is the problem – not the numbers themselves. Numerous daily newspapers (and fans of a program called DeltaMaster) prove that point day after day.
Friday, June 26th, 2009
I want quality measures for information. And today, we’ll take a closer look at one of them. A mere observation shows that many graphical elements are grossly exaggerated. That’s why we’ll show how to choose the right scale and why we’ll now start writing €pP and %pP under our reports.
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.
