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I’m leading a four-part webinar series this August and September 2015 in partnership with Data Analysts for Social Good. In this fourth and final webinar, I’ll teach you about lesser-known charting secrets within Excel, like Change Chart Type, Switch Row/Column, and Reducing Gap Width. Then we’ll dive into advanced chart construction to build graphs that aren’t traditionally available within Excel, like small multiples layouts, slope graphs, and dot plots.

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We can all agree that 3-d exploding pie charts are pretty rotten. My vote for worst chart? The clustered bar chart. I see clustered bar charts everywhere. E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E. On pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of reports. In slides 1, 2, 3,…

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I’ve been building portfolios of my work for a while. Over the past year or so I’ve been building an online portfolio of speaking and writing engagements. Before that, I collected paper copies of reports I worked on: Before The great sobering thing about portfolios is that…

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