Data Visualisation Examples

The following resources provide examples of data visualisation using dashboards. Not all are good examples, but by looking at more dashboards you start getting more of an appreciation for what provides good impact in design and what just fuzzes the brain.

• Dashboard Design - examples of every kind of corporate dashboard possible - the good, bad and ugly
• Corporate Connection - has examples of actual business dashboards that started as part of the Dashboard Spy.
• Dashboard Spy’s Big List of Experts - (videos), and Dashboard by Example.
• Jon’s Excel and Charting Pages - contains many examples of using Excel for charts.
• Many Eyes from IBM - contains many visualizations.
• Nigel Holmes Explanation Graphics charts, diagrams and motion graphics.
• Perceptual Edge examples of turning data into visual information and before and after examples> to show how to better tell the story behind the data.
• Swivel Bar for Excel - provides tips on telling stories through presentations.
• Data Mining - solving problems with pictures
• Serial Consign on Infographics - blog on medical visualization. by Stephen Few
• Excel Tips and Shortcuts to Help You Make Excel Magic> is a list similar to this one with a focus on Excel.
• PowerPoint Presentation Resources> would benefit from these resources and you can see how some people used infovis in their presentations.
• Data Visualization with Web Standards - How to include data visualization as an important part of a web site not as a lone figure or chart.
• The Art of Visual Thinking>: Guy Kawasaki shares a drawing of his own based on Alltop.
• Moving Beyond Bullets in PPT teaches how to tell a story with PowerPoint without resorting to useless templates. Think of it as presentation turned into visuals.
• R Horn at Standford University is an expert on visual argumentation mapping and his site posts speeches, articles, and examples including the cool home page.
• Power and Beauty of Data Visualization> - by Eric Blue who has more entries on
• ExcelUser - has articles on plotting with Excel such as Comparing Metrics by Category> and tips for dashboarding with Excel.
• An Introduction to Visual Thinking: Presentation
• What Ordinary People Need Most from Information Visualization Today [pdf file] by Stephen Few.

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