Productivity tools for data visualization

Designs a pivot table from your column names and one business question: rows, columns, values, filters and a check for wrong totals.

Plans a Gantt chart from your tasks and deadline: task order, dependencies, durations in days and the critical path to watch.

Plans a one-page dashboard around a decision, with at most six visuals, their order on the page and the question each one answers.

Plans a dashboard that updates live, with refresh rules per metric, alert thresholds as numbers and what to show when data stops arriving.

Plans a short animated chart as a sequence of scenes with timing, what moves in each and a still fallback for readers who cannot watch it.

Plans the steps to go from a raw table to a first finished chart in an online chart maker, in a session of 45 minutes or less.

Plans which metrics in a table deserve a sparkline, how to scale and mark them, and which are better left as plain numbers.

Plans which interactions an interactive chart needs, such as filters, tooltips and drill-down, and which to leave out so readers are not lost.