Data dashboards are probably one of the most common analytics tools used by companies and interestingly, they are not unlike your vehicle’s dashboard. Think about that for a minute. In your vehicle, you have a lot of important pieces of information directly in front of you that help you make decisions.
When it comes to actually seeing the data – the patterns and what it actually means – there are two popular terms in data science right now: data visualization and data storytelling.
In my last post on spreadsheet formatting, I discussed the importance of making data in a spreadsheet accessible to users by using some simple formatting techniques. In this post I will discuss no matter how well data is formatted, sometimes it just needs to be visualized.