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.

If you're using Excel to try to tell a story with data, plotting the data in this application should be the first step in your data visualization process, not your last. It takes time, iterations, and sometimes some brute force to get from the graphing application's defaults to a visual that you're proud to present.