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Finally, to the only data visualisation hero I know: Rolf Hichert. Without him, graphomate would not exist.

The story is just too good to be true: In 2009, I was supposed to realise a stacked …

At long last, we were there! After a three-year hiatus, SAP users met for their annual congress over 11-13 October in the picturesque and historic city of Leipzig. It was fantastic to finally meet in-person, …

One of the biggest challenges faced by BI visualisation SASS companies is having ‘good-looking data’ to demonstrate the powers and capabilities of a dashboard. This means that the charts and graphs generated by a demo …

Edward Tufte has been publishing about meaningful information design for almost 40 years. The New York Times even calls him the “Leonardo da Vinci of data”. 

Edward Tufte – the informations design Guru

Yet Edward …

The day has finally arrived: Our graphomate charts and matrix are available for Microsoft 365. Rely on our dream team in Excel and PowerPoint to visualize your data and benefit from the functionalities of these …

My first two data visualisation heroes – William Playfair and Florence Nightingale – were famous people. Today I would like to introduce a relatively unknown person: Willard Cope Brinton.

Willard Cope Brinton

Willard C. Brinton …

There is a long tradition of developers “hiding” small features in their code that will be executed when you click on something supposedly not important or when you reach a game level.

The film “Ready …

In the first part of my blog series on my data visualisation heroes, I tackled the rather shady character William Playfair.
If William was the villain before the Lord, the lady who is to be discussed …

I had – let’s say – a bit more time on my hands last year. Lecture tours and customer visits were cancelled and our regular webinars were limited to the presentation of our new developments …