These are long established reporting formats and should not simply be disregarded as boring and subject to various redesigns. There are certain industries and instances where tables are expected or even required-for example, balance sheets, income statements, cash-flow statements, bank statements, bank-reconciliation reports, etc. That's not the purpose of data visualization. Here are some things to consider when designing text tables.ĭata-viz designers should not be redesigning these tables simply because they are "boring," as tempting as that might be. Recent blog posts, discussions, tweets, and redesigns related to this topic had me thinking more about text tables, which sometimes can't be avoided. That’s really the point of data visualization-to enhance cognition and reach better business conclusions. Tableau Ambassador Keith Helfrich refers to this as the “giant walls of tabular data.” He discusses Tableau as a data-viz tool that’s often used as a “tabular report builder.” “Leverage the visual display of quantitative information to enhance cognition and reach better business conclusions faster!” says Keith. There is nothing worse than opening a report in an Excel spreadsheet and seeing pages and pages of columns that provide little or no insight into the data. We should leverage these tools to find trends and patterns in the data that we would not see with numbers in a table. They are boring." Reaction: "Never use text tables." The field of data visualization offers many tools to help visualize data. The data-viz rule: "Avoid text tables." The issue: "There are better ways to visualize the data. In the first installment, Jeffrey explored the rule "don't use red and green together." A time and a place for text tables
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Note: The following is part of a series of guest posts by Tableau Zen Master Jeffrey Shaffer. Reference Materials Toggle sub-navigation.Teams and Organizations Toggle sub-navigation.
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