Fewer Lies. More Statistics.
The Economist.com reviews the greatest works in this area of visualization. In an ever growing information deluge, it is a great reminder of the power of visualization to easily distill data down to actionable intelligence.
The folks at Juice Analytics do excellent work and have some very useful tools, such as the Chart Chooser. Infothetics does a nice job tracking the latest and greatest in visualization. I personally find Google Analytics to be a very handy out of the box online analytics solution, primarily because of the ease with which data can quickly be visualized and compared against historical performance.
From the Economist’s Worth a Thousand Words article, “Nightingale’s Rose” named after Florence Nightingale who sent this chart to the British War Office arguing for better conditions in soldier’s barracks.
A sample from one of our clients sites using Google Analytics, to quickly compare current site visits with a month prior.
Juice analytics chart chooser, suggests the best chart for your data set. And they have the excel templates, too.
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