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Randy Krum on Why Most Charts Suck and More Deadly Data Viz Sins

The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization

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When Should Practitioners Break Out of the Big Three?

The three most common visualizations used in executive decision making presentations are: pie, the bar and the line. When people use them repetatively they can make their audience go numb. Change from a bar chart to a line chart, to a tree map, to a sandkey diagram or just some other way to visualize the data. Your audience instantly understands that they're now moving to a different set o data.

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