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meaningful visualization in focus
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.
Ben Shneiderman
Vizualisation: the bikini chart
It is hot, real hot, so the bikini once more enjoys great popularity. A good time to take a closer look at the Bikini Chart.
A blog post on the eagereyes website from last year, …
read moreSUCCESS – the “E” stands for “Enable
I am very pleased to welcome Gregor Große-Bölting as the co-author of this blog and as a developer at graphomate. In this article he writes about his insights at the “SUCCESS” customer days by Rolf …
read moreVisualization: depressive diagrams
This infographic taken from the German newspaper “Die Welt kompakt” did cause me some mental stress. It tries to explain who actually earns money with depressions – the pharmaceutical industry. Take a look at my …
read moreVisualization: HICHERT®SUCCESS-charts with SAP BusinessObjects
How can HICHERT®SUCCESS be implemented in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)? Well, in Xcelsius this is made possible very easy by graphomate for a long time now, and soon, by the …
read moreVisualization: When colours make you blind
„Everything is so beautifully colorful here.“ German punk icon Nina Hagen sang this song at the end of the 70s and referred to color TV. Some producers of dashboards still try to comply with this …
read moreVisualization/Xcelsius: a non-informing infographic
In my opinion, there are only some good books on the subject of visualization and infographics. The most recent one is written by Alberto Cairo: “the functional art – an introduction to information graphics and visualization”. …
read moreVisualization: My breakfast in Spain
I had the pleasure to roam about Madrid last month as I was attending the SAP TechEd, trying to keep myself informed about the newest developments at SAP. My hotel only offered Spanish newspapers as …
read moreSimplify: Dashboards and Alcohol
It was pretty quiet here the last few months: too much going on, not enough spare time! That will change again. Now I am proud to announce the first guest post on this blog. …
read moreVisualization: Efficient Dashboard Design (2/2)
In my last post I announced that I would analyze the – how shall I call it – maybe “the worst chart in the world”. Here it is: the origination process from a visual loser …
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