The New York Times has the best illustrated charts I have ever seen. They are visually clear, easy to understand with good copy writing to explain the message behind a story. Note the use of blues and orange shades to give visual contrasts.
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Singapore Statistics have the most amazing numbers on Singapore. Anything on our country’s GDP to how many handphones we have on average can be found. But the folks from SingStats seriously need to improve their charts.
Take a look here (http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/charts/econ.html#econA)
I could hardly make any sense out of these charts. They seems to be just thrown [...]
Imagine you are the new CFO. You took over the position in the new firm and you want to look at the firm’s latest balance sheet.
You’ll probably want to see the firm’s 10 year balance sheet history. It will be tough to make sense of things. What if you have a balance sheet dashboard instead? It [...]
I have always been a fan of Klipfolio (http://www.klipfolio.com). This tiny software features beautifully made dashboards that run on your desktop. It’s useful and very clever. Download it, try it. It’s a low risk way to see how dashboards can work and it’s FREE!
I just tried out Google Docs over the weekend and I like what I see. Google Docs is Google’s online version of wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and presentation software similar to Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs.
Let me explain why you should pay attention to Google Docs. It might change your life by the year 2015!
Firstly these [...]
What if you could turn a drabby Excel chart:
into something like this?
For many Excel users, there is a need to produce clear, concise and even attractive charts in Excel without using expensive software. What is lacking are the clear techniques to do so. Compelled by this need, AEternus has designed a PowerUp Workshop to show [...]
Excerpts from our workshop & PowerUp Seminar: PowerPoint Design Ideas for the Non Designer.
It is a fact that most presentations suck, and they suck for many reasons.
This seminar is about how to create great looking slides. Making bad slides is easy and we have seen many. Making good slides is easy too, but you need to [...]
I saw these couple of charts from the Standard Chartered Bank website.
Things I like about it:
Fresh colour scheme. Blues and greens work well together.
Bold titles that explain the intentions of each chart.
Each chart has an Increase/Decrease call out to emphasize the conclusion from the data trend.
Overall it’s a format that is pleasing to the [...]
The New York Times has the best illustrated charts I have ever seen. They are visually clear, easy to understand with good copy writing to explain the message behind a story. Note the use of blues and orange shades to give visual contrasts.
I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.
I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.