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FALLING TREES AND FAILING REPORTS

July 31st, 2019

Falling Trees and Failing Reports

by Calvin Yau
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Analogously, if an analyst writes a report about data and no one understands it, does it make a difference? In our new work, we try to improve the way analysts can communicate insights about data by proposing a new visualization that shows both a high-level overview as well as important details in a single interactive chart. Read more on Medium