Ann K. Emery

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Do you use PowerPoint? Probably. What do you use PowerPoint for? You might use PowerPoint to: Create slides to accompany a presentation (i.e., you’re getting ready to speak at a conference, meeting, or other in-person or virtual event); and/or Create documents that someone […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. What type of dashboard do we need for our project? I want to talk about something that’s a little controversial in the dashboard space: There are 4 types of dashboards, all of which are correct. You might need one type. Or, you might […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. You’ve been asked to make a dashboard—now what?! Dashboard is a tricky term; it means different things to different people. In this article, you’ll learn how to: choose between various dashboard types (static or interactive, single or series); and deal with common dashboard […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Are you working on a dashboard at your workplace? Maybe you’re making a brand-new dashboard? Maybe you’re revamping an existing dashboard to bring it up to speed? Maybe you don’t have a dashboard yet, and you’re wondering if you need one? In this […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Ready to tell a story with data?   Here’s my definition of data storytelling, in case you missed the previous blog post.  Great!   Let’s remove the guesswork from our graphs.  The next step is to figure out which message we’ll highlight.  We can’t visualization everything—that […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Never, ever keep the default settings. That was the overarching theme of my Lightning Talk at the DATAcated Expo, which was held virtually in October 2021. You’re not going to keep the ugly, outdated defaults. Great! But what should you do instead? And […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. 2021 was a rough year personally; our family of 5 experienced a million health issues and hospital stays, and the bills afterwards were crushing. 2022 can’t be that terrible. Right? Right?? I’m on a mission to make 2022 as healthy and positive as […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. 6,000 total participants in our dataviz training academy so far (with 5 cohorts going through our Full Courses in 2021 alone).  28 blog posts.  14 YouTube videos.  6 podcast interviews.  1 new baby.  What a year.  Top 21 Dataviz Resources of 2021  Want to do some year-end learning as 2021 winds down?  […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. How do we make our graphs more accessible?  There’s a misconception that accessibility takes all day, that’s it’s costly, or that it’s complicated. Those are all false. Accessibility is woven into all my trainings, but since this is a topic I get asked […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. How do we make our graphs more accessible? There’s a misconception that accessibility takes all day, that’s it’s costly, or that it’s complicated. Those are all false. Accessibility is woven into all my trainings, but since this is a topic I get asked […]