Forschung Forschung Landwirtschaftliche Betriebe in der DeltaApp LandÂwirtÂschaftÂliche Betriebe verändern sich ständig und passen sich [...] Read more
Press releases Press releases Partner program of Bissantz for the BI software DeltaMaster on the road to success At the end of 2016, Bissantz & Company launched a new partner program for the [...] Read more
Bissantz ponders Bissantz ponders Data Science vs. Fake News Diagrams dominate our times. The more image-like they are, the less we can control their impact on us. Pictures burn deep into our brains before our conscious mind can prevent permanent damage when they [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Better earlier on the top Time runs from left to right. Same with text. Sometimes time and text are in the way of each other. Then you rotate it. Have a look. Source: WSJ Europe, 2013-04-26, page 32. Funny, what do you [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Disappindex It is difficult to compare time series. Indexing can help. Can be calculated in one way or the other. Equal with all: Everything is compared with the same point in time. It  has to be chosen carefully [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Measure man Man as value is difficult. I find bad: carving man, shrinking man, amputating man, ballooning man. I find good: man as measure. Eye level. Knee-high. Hand deep. Foot long. By a hair. At arm’s length [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Blackground It's hard to print my lovely coat. Because it's black. And printing black is hard. I learnt that from my book (in German). That was printed by someone who can do black well. Because he normally prints [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Pick just a gram I wanted to add something about pictograms and ships. Firstly: There are good pictograms and bad pictograms. The ships are good. As I already said. And as he did. Source: Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-17 [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Japanology The diagram in my last posting is a pitfall. Do you remember? Japan is too old. Look at it again. If you use columns, you must not use a logarithmic scale. If the values spread widely, you must use a [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Understatement overdone Standard & Poor’s gives Japan bad marks. AA- instead of AA. Japan spends more than it earns. And it is too old. That’s what this diagram in the Journal wants to show. Quelle: Source: Wall Street [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Angles on triangles Rupert deletes out algebraic signs in the Wall Street Journal. And draws triangles instead. Red and green. We already had this. Not good. Source: Wall Street Journal Europe, 2010-10-25, page 1. However [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Shadowing enlightens Last time: Spoiling shadows. Today: enlightening shadows. Sometimes a column is more imporant than another. Then it is highlighted. That works good with shadows. As we see here. Source: Wall Street [...] Read more
Bissantz ponders Bissantz ponders Do seven words say more than a chart? Some charts need more than 1,000 words. Yet, sometimes, seven words can be more effective than a chart. Today, we will put an end to the myth that all charts are pictures – and chatterboxes as well. Read more
Bella consults Bella consults One man’s green is another man’s red All school children learn: Go with green. Stop at red. Green is good. Red is bad. Stick to this and you're less likely to be run over. Traffic lights are simple. Prices are not. For some it's good if [...] Read more
Bissantz ponders Bissantz ponders New ‘See’land I No one likes to get lost in a strange place. That’s why we pay extra attention to where we are headed. In fact, I learned a lot from traffic signs on a recent trip abroad. Read more
Bissantz ponders Bissantz ponders One figurine, one person Whether it’s Barbie and Ken, Madame Tussaud, Playmobil or even the ‘Männleinlaufen’ in Nuremburg – people as figurines are either fun or educational. But as we can see from the following examples [...] Read more
Bissantz ponders Bissantz ponders Knecht Rupprecht Murdoch Handelsblatt and the Wall Street Journal Europe, which are affiliated through a mutual cooperation, have recently relaunched their publications. Unfortunately, both instances are not exactly good news [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Good design without mercy: all unnecessary removed Legends are mostly unnecessary. Instead: get to the data. Look, that's what they've done here for the dollar and percentage signs. And for the scale info. Source: Wall Street Journal, 2006-11-21 [...] Read more
Bella consults Bella consults Flashy? Not with the Journal Obama times: Yes we draw. Bars as long as they actually are. No problem at all in Obama country: The Wall Street Journal draws them over the whole page (click for full view). In the German newspaper [...] Read more