Explore the rookie mistakes IT pros make in visualization design, transitioning from Excel to Power BI, understanding color vision deficiency, importance of visual indicators, understanding different audiences in design, and upcoming conferences.
Understanding the different types of audiences for reports and dashboards is crucial for prioritizing usability and clarity over artistic design.
The SQL Trail event on June 15th will provide a great networking opportunity with more space for meet and greet between sessions.
Deep dives
SQL Trail announcement
The podcast host announces an upcoming SQL Trail event on June 15th, inviting listeners to register and attend.
Speakers and topics
The podcast host shares the lineup of speakers for the SQL Trail event, including Deepthe talking about the fundamentals of query store, John Kursky discussing data ops with Azure DevOps, DAX Studio, and PowerShell, and Chris Sefirless from Microsoft covering Azure Synapse and data workloads.
Enhancements to the event
The host mentions that the SQL Trail event will be using air meat and will have more space for meet and greet between sessions, creating a better networking opportunity.
Dashboard design principles
Towards the end of the podcast, the host and guests discuss the importance of understanding different types of audiences for reports and dashboards, and emphasize the need to prioritize usability and clarity over artistic design and aesthetics.
Have you ever created a report in a visualization tool, spent all this time and energy creating something that looked really cool, went through more edits than you could remember only to deliver the report and have the recipient go “What am I looking at?” I don’t think I am the only one and, in this episode, we explore some of the rookie mistakes IT pros make when creating visualizations.