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There is nothing worse than opening a report in an Excel spreadsheet and seeing pages and pages of columns that provide little or no insight into the data. But text tables do have their place, especially in the financial sector. Here are some things to consider when designing text tables.

When it comes to analytics, sharing is caring.

Why should IT organizations promote a culture of self-service analytics? The answer is simple: productivity. Our job in IT is to create a secure environment that allows people to be highly productive. And enabling people to explore their own data in real-time is an essential part of that work.

I’ve been educated and inspired recently by the best-selling design classic The Design of Everyday Things by UX guru Don Norman.

This is the first in a series of posts about some of the well-known “data viz rules". We often hear these rules, but the details behind them are often not examined in depth or are overlooked completely. I wanted to examine a few of them to better understand how they should be applied. For the first in the series, I examined the issue of using red and green together.

I've read a few data-viz books recently. Here are my quick reviews of Alberto Cairo's The Truthful Art, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data, and Isabel Meirelles's Design for Information.