Long ago I read an article about an apparently strange behavior: if you’re seeing a person looking at their watch and you immediately ask what time it is, just a small percentage can tell you the correct time. Some researches tried to investigate what’s the
A lot of times report developers are working against a running clock to deliver the reports they are asked to produce as quickly as possible. As such, many times we end up with a multitude of reports with different looks and feels as this is
In all data visualizations you want to have the user quickly identify the most important information. You might need to draw their attention to an outlier, to a metric that is under-performing or over-performing. This can be done through color, though not only, by applying
It’s been long proven that the human process of comprehension and insight is faster with visualizations than with plain numbers or tabular data. Since the 14th century, when Nicole Oresme used a bar chart in “The Latitude of Forms” to plot velocity of a constantly