Power BI and Design
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Power BI and Design

I’m running into a tension between a one-page design versus a design with white space. White space is supposed to ease the eye flow around visuals and tables but it does create space. I get the idea of one pagers and usually strive for that, but if the lettering is too small, maybe it would…

Managing Your Data…or Not

Managing Your Data…or Not

[Note: this post is experimental. I’m playing with CSS to see how it works.] If you work with numbers or data for any length of time, I would expect that you would converge on some form of standardization or consistent methodology, but curiously, I often find that is not true. And I’m having a hard…

Abstract/Patterned background with handwritten texts: Visual Communication - Images or Charts
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Charts versus Images

Since I’m working with and learning how to use Power BI, I received one of Microsoft’s marketing newsletters which struck me as odd. It’s a beautiful marketing piece designed to produce an desire to try out Power BI. But what was odd was that the most compelling visuals were either imagery or the copywriting and…

ACA 2018: Finally done

ACA 2018: Done!

Just a quickie post on my status. I passed the ACA testing last week and then got my submission in on Monday but did not get the final word until this morning. This year’s reporting was long and drawn out with late nights and some working weekends because of 2 major factors: we changed payroll…