Data Stories: How Much Complexity Is Too Much?
Articles about designing dashboards for CEOs, communicating complex information, and what we can learn from centuries of data visualization.
- By Upside Staff
- September 4, 2019
![screenshot of a CEO dashboard](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/09/090319VizCEODashboard.png)
A selection of tips and examples for what could be considered the most important BI tool in your organization—your CEO’s dashboard.
![hand drawn axis with size of audience on the x-axis and complexity of ideas on the y-axis](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/09/090319VizComplexity.png?h=282&w=500&hash=F04B198F1DD8E30C2BBA71871955607F)
In a talk given in honor of the 150th anniversary of the periodic table of elements, data viz expert Lisa Charlotte Rost discusses how to communicate complex ideas to a wider range of people.
![antique chart by william playfair](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/09/090319VizHistoricVisualizations.png)
A collection of antique data visualizations and the lessons that can still be learned from them.