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Visualization: Rules for BI

May 13, 2010

“In God we trust; all others must bring data.”
- W. Edwards Deming

At our BI Symposium on May 6, 2010, Jeff Shaffer provided us with great insight on how the way we present our data can be just as important as what we present.  Jeff is not a big fan of pie charts.  In fact he has 4 rules:

  1. Don’t use pie charts.
  2. If you use pie charts, be careful in chosing the number of items you chart.
  3. If you use pie charts, be sure they are “centered at noon”.
  4. If you use pie charts, make sure that they sum to 100%

Jeff shared lots of bad charts, lots of REALLY BAD charts and summed it up with some great looking dashboards. I encourage you to check out his presentation!

Visualization: Running a Business with Dashboards and Scorecards
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- Jodie

Written by Jodie Heflin · Filed Under Featured, LUCRUM News 

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  1. LUCRUM Incorporated on May 13th, 2010 3:03 pm

    Create great dashboards! Visualization: Rules for BI http://tinyurl.com/287b4yf #BISymp2010 #JeffShaffer

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