Early in my career, I produced many data visualizations for a senior executive. Let’s call him Gordon. Gordon is unabashedly a man of strong convictions. One of his most strongly and repeatedly voiced was that, in any data visualization, the color green had to represent good and the color red had to represent bad. And…

Robin Williams (from her website: “writer. teacher. mom. not the actor”) has developed the widely cited CRAP design principles: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. These are powerful general purpose design principles, but a few additional principles are helpful with respect to the display of quantitative information. Inspired by the work of Edward Tufte, I propose…

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” – John Naisbitt For the love of statistics, please stop using the words “reporting” and “analytics” interchangeably. Reporting is the display of information. Analytics is the interpretation of information. Analytics is the process that turns information into insight, reporting into understanding. Every time someone uses the…