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Dark background is the future of dashboards (article on Nightingale)

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There is one ongoing data visualization debate where the best-practice answer has not yet been settled: the question of dark mode dashboards, those that place visuals on black or very dark backgrounds.

The internet is filled with opinions, false claims that something is better based purely on preference (“I like it, so it should be good”), and little research. However, dark mode is increasingly common—there is one for Apple, one for Android, one for Windows, and even one for Power BI. Should your dashboards also be dark?

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What to Consider When Considering the Audience

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“Considering the audience” is one of the most important pieces of advice in storytelling and data visualisation. It is generally suggested to think about their needs, goals, and ability to understand the items displayed in the visual.

This allows our message to reach them more easily and resonate with them better, but the idea of “considering the audience” itself is quite vague.
In this article, I will turn the vague suggestion “consider the audience” into something more checklist-like, which you could go through and consider the audience “considered”.

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Let’s Bring Some Data Density to Financial Presentations

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Managers rarely have time to thoroughly explore financial presentations, that is why you need to make as much information available as quickly as possible — an easily readable data-dense visualization serves this purpose well. In my pursuit to make denser bar charts, I found five techniques that I will share here.

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