While it's easy to put your data into a chart and feel like you're done, this is a disservice to both your mission and your data. Here, I focus on an example from a recent workshop and discuss teasing the story out of the data, using data labels to help draw our audience's attention to where we want it.

I often emphasize the importance of identifying the single most important story you want to tell and crafting a visual to support this. But how should you approach the visualization challenge when there are multiple stories you want to tell with the same data? Check out this post for a strategy.

This post recaps my recent presentation at the annual Grant Mangers Network Conference and shows a makeover of one of the visuals we discussed in the hands-on workshop.

In this post, I look at a solution for embedding a graph within a table in an effort to help the audience more easily visualize the tabular data.

One common piece of feedback I get after presenting on the topic of data visualization goes something like this:  Wow, that was super useful. I'm never going to use pie charts again. But when it comes to the graphs, how do you actually make them look like that? I'm not Excel-savvy...help! Let me take a few minutes to walk step-by-step through an example to expose those who question their Excel expertise to some of my tricks.

I hate pie charts. I mean, really hate them. In this post, I discuss why and show an illustrative makeover.