"A good test of how effective your data visualizations are: can you remove all or most of the numbers and still understand the visualization and make comparisons?" (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"A good visualization can do more than just answer questions; it can help you see that there are other questions you need to answer." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"Data visualization isn’t just about informing, it’s also about persuading." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"Most organizations are drowning in data but are thirsty for understanding." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"The best way to engage people and drive adoption is to provide something useful and meaningful, and one of the best ways to do this is to make it personal." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"The goal of using data visualization to make better and faster decisions may lead people to think that any data visualization that is not immediately understood is a failure. Yes, a good visualization should allow you to see things that you might have missed, and to glean insights faster, but you still have to think." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"The problem is that a pie chart does one thing well, and most people don’t use it for that one thing. Specifically, they’re great at giving you a fast and accurate estimate of the part-to-whole relationship for two of the slices. Other than that, pie charts are terrible. [...] The same strengths and shortcomings that apply to the pie chart also apply to the donut chart." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"What is the secret to getting people to use charts and dashboards? Personalization. Inserting the audience into the visualization, and making it especially meaningful and relevant to the user, never fails." (Steve Wexler, "The Big Picture: How to use data visualization to make better decisions - faster", 2021)
"A dashboard is not a good place to tell a story. But it's a great place to find a story worth telling!" (Steve Wexler) [in media]
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