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Well I’ve managed to hold off for 53 posts but finally I’m compelled to discuss Minard’s 1869 graph depicting Napoleon’s 1812 march on Moscow, a graph famously described by Edward Tufte as possibly being “the best statistical graphic ever drawn“. It has come up now because Andrew Arbela on The Extreme Presentation Method blog has published a […]

Having picked up a recent blog post by Stephen Few about a graph that had been promoted as an example of good practice by Oracle’s BI suite, I was searching around for reports on BI vendors and came across a decision matrix report by DataMonitor from 2007. The report I unearthed was on the SAS site,

I’ve come across an infographic today (via cool infographics) that was originally published in February on Focus.com, a business expertise exchange and research service. I’ve shown the full length of the graphic below, a larger version can be accessed here.

There has already been a great deal of coverage across visualisation-related blogs and news sites about the reaction of General McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to a slide he was was presented portraying the complexity of American military strategy. I can’t avoid the temptation to add my own contribution to

Throughout the financial crisis broadcasters, politicians, journalists, authors, academics and other communicators have tried various techniques to try help make their message come of this complex subject as accessible and as digestable as possible. One of the key attributes of effective communication, as suggested by Dan and Chip Heath, is to make the message concrete. That

Having immersed myself in the world of data visualisation through research and practice over the past 3 to 4 years, it’s emergence and continued growth is very clear for me to witness.

Delighted that Elissa Fink, VP Marketing at Tableau Software, has taken the time to comment on my recent post ‘Tableau graph showing Gartner’s customer survey results‘ to provide some important context and explanation behind the use of this graph in their recent blog item. Elissa comments as follows: Thanks for noticing our blog post. The

Very disappointed in Tableau for the production of this graph on their most recent blog post. I’m a big fan of their software and their credible stance on principles relating to data visualisation but, on this occasion, they’ve produced something which breaks a number of their championed best practices. The graph displayed relates to the

Fine tune Design of Nothing for Utrecht event

A few weeks ago I posted some screenshots from the O2 ‘My Account’ app for the iPhone.  I suggested that the design could be much improved in order to increase the efficiency in the use of space and also make better use of the opportunity to provide valuable account analysis. At the time I promised