Management Articles | Daniel Pradilla

How to create an embeddable timeline chart

The other day, web developer friend asked me how to create and insert a timeline into WordPress. He actually wanted to put an interactive timeline with links, images and video on the homepage of a news site. I checked out several options out there and settled on TimelineJS. You can create timeline charts directly on… Continue reading How to create an embeddable timeline chart

amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts

amCharts is a new JavaScript library for creating charts on the web. It handles many types of charts and it’s somewhat reminiscent of D3.js. Its most exciting feature is a live editor, which removes the grunt work related to your typical JavaScript charting library and enables you to design, change and export your chart to… Continue reading amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts

How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson

Over in his blog, John Nelson gives us a full step by step recommendations on how to successfully demo an app in front of an audience. In my case, my two biggest mistakes are usually going too fast or not providing enough context before beginning. I know it because of the questions that rise later… Continue reading How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson

How to build quick and free charts

Back in July 2013, the guys from released their Chartbuilder tool to the rest of the world. Quartz is a very successful online magazine. For their charting needs they use Chartbuilder, a web tool they built to streamline their cumbersome Excel-based process and convert it to a three step copy+paste, copy+paste, publish workflow. Author David Yanofksy:… Continue reading How to build quick and free charts

A primer on Visual Encoding

Michael Dubakov has this great introduction to visual encoding, along with samples and easy to remember rules, so you don’t mess up the next time you’re trying to visualize data.