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Tobias Guggemos Dec 14 2025 at 5:16PM on page 56

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Why not similar to ranking: text and symbol in the title: like product name and a simplified symbol for filter such as:
- Stacked lines: It typically looks like three horizontal lines of varying lengths (often short, medium, long)
- A small inverted triangle symbol ▼

Tobias Guggemos Dec 14 2025 at 3:51PM on page 49

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(1) In many vizzes, a darker shade of a color stands for higher number. E.g., dark blue for high revenues and lighter blue shades for lower revenues. Could be more intuitive when a darker shade is for higher amount of a KPI. The standard here that darker means undesirable and lighter is more desirable is maybe confusing for many people because often the standard is: darker means more of something. why not darker shade for a higher amount, independing of this is desirable or not. I.e., darker for higher revenues as well as for higher costs.
(2) This can be seen with color gradients. darker green for high positive deviation, light green for low positive deviation, light red for low negative and dark red for high negative deviation, with many shades in beetween.
You could also adress gradient colors. Color gradients should be used rarely, because it is unclear which color shade stands for which value. Even with a legend, only the tendency is visible, so not for precise messages. A use case could be a heatmap where a lot of data is used and it is not about precision but rather an overview and identifying some hotspots. Less colors, e.g. only green and red for variances, is clearer. This is maybe the reason why you exclude yellow for small variances. Problem is to define what small means.

Tobias Guggemos Dec 14 2025 at 11:38AM on page 67

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Another exception is experience curve concept (sinking costs by a constant percentage with increasing production over time), if you want to mention this.

Tobias Guggemos Dec 14 2025 at 10:02AM on page 107

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Bars are so great because they start at the same point (x=0), therefore even minimal differences between the bars are recognizable (as opposed to pie charts). This advantage disappears when the bars are stacked. The lighter grey bars are difficult to compare because starting points differ. I would prefer this here when an overview is important to compare all cities with the product breakdown. Alternatively, 2 bar charts: one per city and one per product which can be filtered by city.

Tobias Dec 13 2025 at 11:17PM on page 112

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1) usually, rel. market share is on x-axis. we read from left to right, from top to bottom - this leads to the phases in the product lifecycle - question marks, stars, cash cows, dogs. here it starts top left with cash cows. No reason is mentioned why not applying the standard for portfolio visualizations.
2) the threshold lines for low and high growth & share could be more noticeable/ clearer (similar to tips for zero-lines from somewhere else in this document). Defining those limits are a very important part of portfolio analysis, which should be highlighted.

Tobias Dec 13 2025 at 10:41PM on page 135

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maybe, there should be more lines in the chart left, making it clearer that it can be confusing. With a filter option, this issue can be solved. You user then can select how many lines still make sense. There is the advantage that many lines in one chart show correlations better. A true spaghetti with too many lines is to be avoided, of course. Maybe a comment in the title (with the message of the purpose of the chart - that only few lines should be compared) in combination with a filter, is a good option to show correlations between lines which increase information density.

Tobias Dec 13 2025 at 9:41PM on page 153

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There is a mistake in the KPI tree. Return is always a relative figure, defined as profit divided by a reference figure. So, what you should have here is a profitability figure: e.g., operating profit. DuPont/ROI system uses Earnings. Then it works: Dividing Earnings by Sales provides Sales Return.

Beat Dec 12 2025 at 8:25AM on page 8

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Shouldn't all Certified Consultants (ICC) be listed here?
If yes, please add:
Matthias Giger
Raphael Kempf
Cornelius Knall

Frank Dec 10 2025 at 11:13AM on page 3

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Explain how these guidelines relate to WCAG. WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, an internationally recognized standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal is to make websites and digital content accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities (visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive impairments).

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 10 2025 at 9:23AM on page 25

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using {G, M, k} for {Giga, Mega, kilo} can be irritating, so some more explanation on this occasion would be helpful

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 10 2025 at 9:04AM on page 19

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cf. S1, sounds to me pretty much the same, doesn't it?

Markus Dec 9 2025 at 3:59PM on page 6

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Consider to distinguish between "time interval dimension" (a time range with defined start and end, e.g. April becomes April 01 to April 30) and "time dimension" (a point in time, e.g. April, which could be the month or the last day of the month in financial reporting)

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 9 2025 at 2:56PM on page 17

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For the sake of emphasis, cut "complicated" from the sentence. Even if a visualization is not overly complicated, it still can benefit from being simplified.

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 9 2025 at 2:54PM on page 17

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Cut "PowerPoint". Though it's the most commonly used software to produce slides, it's defnitiely not the only one out there.

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 9 2025 at 2:43PM on page 6

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add "location" as an example since it's more widely applicable.

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 9 2025 at 2:39PM on page 6

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"Posted" is obsolete and can be removed. This would create a more dense description and removes ambiguity.
One could imagine the questions "What is the meaning of 'posted`?" or "Are there other applications of visuals?"

Marcus Bitterlich Dec 9 2025 at 2:30PM on page 3

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I'd suggest to clarify that this applies also to "one screen", i.e.: there should not be the necessity to scroll down or flip a page.

Matthias Giger Dec 8 2025 at 10:34PM on page 38

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have been adopted by ISO 24896

in reply to Frank's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 8 2025 at 10:29PM on page 37

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In data analytics professions, the term measure dimension makes sense. I could not think of a better term to be honest.

Matthias Giger Dec 8 2025 at 10:24PM on page 36

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Is detail a verb and this a complete sentence?

Lars Dec 8 2025 at 2:41PM on page 3

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I rarely heard about data compilations, isn't just "data" enough?

in reply to Matthias Giger's comment

Lars Dec 8 2025 at 2:37PM on page 3

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I would prefer "meaningful" instead of creative

Matthias Giger Dec 6 2025 at 1:03PM on page 32

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have been adopted by ISO 24896

Matthias Giger Dec 6 2025 at 12:56PM on page 29

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A way around showing too many categories at once is to offer a parameter for the end user so she or he can switch between the categories. This is possible with most modern BI Tools such as SAC, Power BI and Tableau.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:30PM on page 27

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a project, etc., or combinations thereof
a comma before 'or'?

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:29PM on page 27

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has been adopted by ISO 24896

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:24PM on page 26

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... vertical space, especially on pages ...
a comma would ease comprehension

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:22PM on page 26

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at the top of the page or screen

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:19PM on page 26

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the position and the layout are always...

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:18PM on page 26

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no comma needed here

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:16PM on page 26

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every kind of text component.
'every kind of' requires a singular

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:11PM on page 26

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Typo?

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 7:35PM on page 25

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Is this a narrow blank space?

in reply to Mala Deep Upadhaya 1 1 1 1 1 1 1's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 7:23PM on page 23

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I would omit cognitive load. While it is a well know term in data visualization, it's not that well commonly understood.

in reply to Dr. Jan Seifert's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 2:11PM on page 19

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I am not sure if I understand you correctly. Could it be that you describe the function of thresholds, average lines, etc...? That would be a dedicated feature of many BI-platforms usually referred to as reference lines.

in reply to Mario's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 1:59PM on page 17

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I'd say if it has a function to support it conveys meaning too. However I would rather use whitespace and alignment to structure things. White space and alignment use less cognitive processing power to percept.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 12:13PM on page 17

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I am not sure. If the animation is on the single most important data point, it can help to draw the attention there. If it can be done with a less attention consuming encoding, animations shall not be used though. Animation on side elements are secure indicators of bad design choices or attempts to hide the lack of strong content.
I am not sure, if this thought can be conveyed here in a simple and short manner.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 12:00PM on page 16

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Do the shades of grey convey a different meaning?

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 11:52AM on page 15

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This has been mentioned already. Is the repetition intended?

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 11:42AM on page 7

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business instead of finance?

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 11:41AM on page 7

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better and faster decision-making....
I suggest to add faster as a second advantage

in reply to Matthias Giger's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 11:35AM on page 6

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Analysts distinguishes heavily between dimensions and measures. Measures can be aggregated and are typically continuous (metric), dimensions can be grouped and are typically discrete (nominal, ordinal).
Maybe 'measures dimensions' is more accurate. Examples for measure dimensions are Sales vs Profit or more granular, Gross Profit, EBIT, EBITDA, EBT, Net Profit

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 11:24AM on page 6

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Measures can overlap. And there are business reasons to use measures that overlap. If mentioning measures as an example here is important for a later context, I don't mind. If not, I suggest not to use them here as an example.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 11:17AM on page 6

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I suggest to rephrase:
... and annotations. General components are not used for the construction of visuals but are necessary for the comprehension of visuals and entire pages.
This way it is clear that not used for the construction references to General components. Plus, the sentence is shorter.

in reply to Frank's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 10:18AM on page 3

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Frank, I agree that Clarify is more accurate. However, the SUCCESS Formula has done a great job of sticking in the heads and therefore I would not recommend to change that SUCCESS formula.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 10:14AM on page 4

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Now I understand why you added the adjective in the introduction as a reference to this thoughts.
I would suggest to take it out in the introduction as there is causes more confusion and here it is well explained.

in reply to Matthias Giger's comment

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 10:03AM on page 3

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Maybe also mention shortly the difference target audience.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 10:00AM on page 3

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I suggest to point out the difference between the ISO 24896 and IBCS principles more clearly and in simpler words. I doubt that readers immediately understand that IBCS is much richer than ISO 24896 and that ISO is more condensed.

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:50AM on page 3

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Isn't the term 'Nonprofit' more commonly used?

Matthias Giger Dec 5 2025 at 9:47AM on page 3

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What is the intention to use the adjective 'creative' here?