We’ve all been there.
Our hyper-connected digital world is defined by an overabundance of data. Everything’s measurable, trackable, and quantifiable
Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website , you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images. It’s easy enough to do, there’s so much misinformation around fair-usage from country-to-country that it’s easy to assume you’ll be safe, but still end up with a huge invoice from Getty Images. If you have fully paid-up access to an image provider or stock image library, then fantastic.
Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website , you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images. It’s easy enough to do, there’s so much misinformation around fair-usage from country-to-country that it’s easy to assume you’ll be safe, but still end up with a huge invoice from Getty Images.
We can all collect masses of data, but it only becomes genuinely useful when we use it to make a clear point. This is where data visualization comes in.
In this post, I’ll look at how brands are making the most of data visualization and data-informed product design to bring out data’s creative side. Prompted by the agenda of a conference I recently attended, I asked myself a random question: is big data actually still a thing?
The number of digital skills you need in order to be a functional and useful member of your organisation are increasing at a rate you might be struggling to keep up with. As well as the ability to understand your analytics and be fully aware of basic SEO skills , you need to be able to present information and data in the clearest manner possible to members of your team and, of course, your senior management
“The graphic method has considerable superiority for the exposition of statistical facts over the tabular. A heavy bank of figures is grievously wearisome to the eye, and the popular mind is as incapable of drawing any useful lessons from it as of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers.” -Arthur Briggs Farquhar and Henry Farquhar from Economic and Industrial Delusions In a previous column , I shared that data visualization is your secret weapon for storytelling and persuasion. I wanted to follow that up with actionable tips for how you can be more successful with your own efforts sharing data with your team
Note from Ashley: Please welcome this guest post from Shawna Kenyon, an Associate Account Manager with TopRank Online Marketing. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, if that’s true then how many is an Infographic worth? Infographics are all the rage right now, and it’s not surprising B2B marketers are paying attention