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The last goodie I found this year! An older favourite of mine and not really a visualisation …
On the other hand, comics are also visualisations in a broader sense, and as a big fan of …

Today’s The Goody I Found (TGIF) arrived in an envelope in our office: an advertising brochure for a German CRM/ERP system for the IT industry.
You can find the scan of an example report in the …

This time a post that really deserves to be called ‘the goody I found’:
simply beautiful, almost art!
A new, native Power BI widget by Nicholas Lea-Trengrouse. He calls it Parastichy Visual and I find it exceptionally …

Always a special event, reflecting the traditions up here in the north:
Boßeln or in English roadbowling. Does it exist?

Especially BI consultants from the south of Germany have had a hard time getting used to …

It’s Friday morning and time again for “The goody I found (TGIF!)”… … this week it’s a Power BI Sales Dashboard on linkedin that caught my eye.
https://lmy.de/jeYxX

As you can see in the screenshot, the image …

Todays Goody I Found is about the mother of modern nursing and a famous statistician: Florence Nightingale on of our DataViz heroes.

Florence Nightingale was sent to the Crimea in 1854, where the Crimean Wars were …

This week “The Goody I found” (TGIF) is about KPI Cards in Power BI.

Gustaw Dudek shows some small-multiple layout alternatives of the KPI Cards in Power BI, as shown in the picture below left. Nice …

On the left you see a sales card visual for Power BI with a table for detailed data underneath.
It’s meant to be an “experience where users can effortlessly explore sales patterns and extract meaningful insights.”

I …

I’ve been a big fan of sparklines for over 15 years now, so I thought it was high time I provided a more in-depth review of these “word graphics”.

The “invention” of sparklines is attributed …