Should you use dashboards to tell stories or to find stories? By Steve Wexler

Shortly before The Big Book of Dashboards was published, I had the good fortune to attend Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic’s Storytelling with Data workshop. Great content, great presentation, and I got… worried. I remember thinking “this is really good… why will anybody need the dashboard book?”It was shortly after this momentary panic
that Cole described a tendency that many people have in presenting their data. They want to relate just how long and hard they worked. “Look at all these data sources!
Look at all the rows… look at all the columns! Look at every stone I unturned!”

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