Fishing for Insights: Reeling in Data Stories
Today, we embark on a thrilling journey to uncover the hidden treasures within your business data.
Don’t Hire a Translator for Your Dashboards
In this article, we’ll discuss why data storytelling in dashboards is important and how to achieve it.
Why Dashboards are a Powerful Tool in FP&A
This short article explains the strategic role of dashboard design and helps you set the right key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks for your business.
Four must-use dashboard space savers
In this article, we will answer the question of why we need single-screen dashboards and how to fit everything we need into one page.
Why FP&A shouldn’t push digitalization too fast
If you are about to embark on a digitalization journey, do not forget to take your employees with you. This short article explains how FP&A can help organizations avoid the three-to-five-year gap between the technology adoption level and the mindset of employees.
How we manipulate data without even knowing
Even if you are keen to base your decision on solid data, or at least google results, you are most likely to make this mistake.
Our usual habit is to develop a quick opinion about something and then consciously search for the information, that supports our opinion.
How to explain it through the story
In September “Data Story” from Nancy Duarte became available for pre-order. Data storytelling book from the guru of slides and presentations!!!
I couldn’t wait.
In December it arrived to me from Amazon. New. With the paper smell of the unread pages. I jumped right into it.
Pie charts are evil! – avoid any charts with food in the name
Usually at my “Storytelling with Business Data” workshops audience splits into pie-chart-lovers (hopefully minority) and pie-chart-haters (hopefully majority). But it is hard to find a single person in the audience, who has never created a pie chart.
Pie chart is probably one of the most overused charts in data visualization history.
Why Tableau is not the best way to start with data visualization
New job. New office. New team.
Eight years ago, I joined FP&A department of a large corporation. A lot of water under that bridge. But I remember this day as yesterday.
And here is why.
Why managers do not understand charts
I was meeting my friend and mentee Jan for a beer.
He was late.
I was worried.
Today he had his first presentation to management after he joined FP&A department in XXX corporation.