Dashboard Design is underway with ~65 new participants.
The end-of-December crunch is underway in my household, with a school concert, sock exchange, or field trip for one of my kids' classrooms every day.
And new dataviz time-savers for you are still underway!
New on YouTube
If you’ve got a column chart with lots of labels, chances are, the labels have gotten twisted diagonally.
Diagonal text takes longer to read than plain ol’ horizontal text, so we want to avoid it.
In this lesson, you’ll learn 5 ways to fix those lonnng chart labels.
Related Resources
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How to Rotate Bar Charts
The how-to steps behind one of the solutions mentioned in this week's YouTube video.
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Avoiding Diagonal Text
Several options beyond column charts (which often have twisted, unreadable text).
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Public Training
These hybrid online courses will be open to anyone. You?
- Simple Spreadsheets: Likely opening officially in March 2025
- Great Graphs: April 2025
- Great Graphs in Excel: May 2025
- Report Redesign: October 2025
- Powerful Presentations: November 2025
- Dashboard Design: December 2025
Private Training & Consulting
- Private workshops: On-site or online, just for your team.
- Consulting: Data Visualization Style Guides; Dashboard Design and Automation; Accessibility Audits; Report and Slidedeck Templates; and more.
- Conference keynotes: Visionary and aspirational. Or, hands-on and applied. Your choice.
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Meet Ann K. Emery
A trusted data visualization leader for more than 10 years. On-site workshops for 25,000 researchers, evaluators, and scientists in 31 states and 11 countries. Online courses for 10,000 participants. 200 consulting clients. 5 kids. 0 sleep. 978 miles walked on my treadmill while working in 2024. Will I reach my goal of 1,000 miles by the end of December??
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