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Build A Brain-Friendly Stacked Bar Chart in Excel [Template]

One of the best parts about writing an analytics blog is…analyzing the analytics on the blog. So meta. Recently while analyticizing, I noticed several internal site searches for “stacked bar chart”. Except…they retrieved zero results. Suddenly, a thought struck me: Here I am blabbing about the importance of good data viz, and I don’t have …

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An Example of Bullet Points that Won’t Murder Your PowerPoint [Template]

An Example of Bullet Points that Won’t Murder Your Presentation I’m going soft in my old age. Allow me to explain: in my signature presentation session, called “Get Their Attention“, I identify and help break the most common presentation patterns preventing success. Many wish to blame PowerPoint, arguably the world’s most popular and yet poopooed …

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How to Make Charts Look Good in PowerPoint [Template]

Raise your hand if this scenario sounds familiar. I can’t see you do it, but please indulge me. You’re in the middle of a web analytics or marketing campaign readout, and you arrive at one of your most compelling insights. The chart slide you’ve painstakingly created will leave your audience changed forever. You click over …

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