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A. KolokolovMake Your Data Speakhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8942-6_3

3. Anatomy of Diagrams

Alex Kolokolov1  
(1)
Batumi, Georgia
 

We built a dashboard pretty quickly. And it looks like an interactive analytical application, not just a set of charts and filters, as it usually turns out in Excel. It seems to many that it is already good, but we are only at the beginning of the journey.

This part of the book is about fine-tuning the elements of the diagram, from which the first impression is “beautiful and clear.” You don’t have to be a designer to make your work look professional and expensive. You just need to follow a number of rules, which I will tell ...

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