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Nicholas P. Desbarats

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https://www.practicalreporting.com/

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Business, Nonfiction, Science

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October 2023

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As an independent educator, Nick Desbarats has taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Yale University, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, The Central Bank of Tanzania, and many others.

Nick was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design workshops, which he taught from 2014 until launching his own workshops in 2019. He has held senior executive positions at several software companies and was a co-founder of BitFlash Inc., which raised over $20M in venture financing and was sold to OpenText Corporation. In 2012, Ni ...more

	Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating Clear, Compelling Charts for Reports and Presentations 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Practical Charts: 20 Additional Chart Types for Data-savvy Audiences, a Companion Book to Nick Desbarats' Practical Charts 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nicholas P. Desbarats wrote a new blog post The problem with "% above/below target" indicators on dashboards (and what I use instead) You've undoubtedly seen dashboards with "% above/below target" numbers beside metrics that indicate, for example, that a metric's current value is Read more of this blog post »
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