Collab-Or-Ate

It is that type of day where you mean to get some work done, but you first have to check out your blogs. Because checking blogs is kind of like getting work done, right? So of course I’ve spent half of Saturday catching up on politics and pop culture and not getting any work done. Unintentionally though I think I found something to help with my data analysis, which I swear I will get down to as soon as I finish this blog post!

On Lynn Cherny’s blog post about Colbert and book sales, I was admiring the data charts she posted from Juice Analytics. Turns out they have a bunch of tools and tips for making your chart-junky Excel charts look a wee bit better with a simple click of the button. I’ve downloaded their CleanCharts Excel Add-on and, when it works (kind of quirky), it works great. I also picked out the best of the charts in their Chart Chooser and downloaded those templates.