In the 49th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about data dumps!
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- What is a data dump
- Examples of data dump
- Why we dump
- Ways to avoid data dumps
- Go for information dumps
- Sort the dump
- Filter the dump
- Give a table
- Resources for you
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Resources for making animated charts
Making better charts in Excel:
Charting podcasts:
- CP029 – Impress your boss with awesome charts – 6 step road map
- CP032 – Rules for creating legendary column charts
- CP038 – Data to Ink Ratio – What is it and how to optimize it
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3 Responses to “CP049: Don’t do data dumps!!!”
Your title got me nervous because I'm all about data dumps, but not for attaching graphics to data dumps. My reason for using data dumps is when someone is trying to do analysis and their starting point is a report that's formatted in a way for a human to read. I instruct them to stop with the report and go get a data dump: just rows and columns and rows and columns.
Agreed, nearly all of my reports start with 100+ lines of simple table data.
That way you can build your functionality around pulling information from that tabled information.
Yes yes!