Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What are our best stories to tell? Do we need to engage an external freelancer (writing and/or design)? Are we gathering photos all year long so we have enough come time to prepare our report? Is our donor list accurate and up-to-date? What will be our annual report's theme? Will we distribute in print and/or online/digitally?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Select photos that tell a story related to your content and avoid using them purely for decoration. DO include bar charts, pie charts, and diagrams if they support your points. A good rule of thumb is to limit your content to two sentences per slide or four short bullets. 7) Visual variety. 9) Data is very powerful.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lamberts ResiClub in your inbox? If youd like to further examine the monthly state inventory figures, use the interactive chart below. Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. When assessing home price momentum, it’s important to monitor active listings and months of supply.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

The underlying rationale, facts, and stories should be repeated over and over in the messaging of all promotional and solicitation initiatives. They can identify probable donors from their professional, personal, and civic networks, introduce them to the mission, and help spread stories and impact at every possible opportunity.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Topping the charts of most-read Candid blogs of 2022: the overhead myth. Our mission is to get you the information you need to good, and our Candid blogs aim to fulfill on this promise by providing you–our amazing readers–with the expert guidance, data-driven insights, inspiring stories, and influential trends to support your work.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 27, 2014

Tell a story The key to telling a story in your infographic is to present important information in a way that is both interesting and engaging. You can create a simple infographic by doing such things as using minimal colors and making simple charts. Identify your goal We often have loads of information we want to share.

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TechSpot

JUNE 14, 2023

There was plenty on offer: some story reveals, cities, ship-building, skill trees, upgrades, space combat, and much more. The Starfield Direct showcase over the weekend revealed a massive 45 minutes of the game that is being called Skyrim in space. Read Entire Article

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While perhaps not as demanding as your other reporting duties, the annual report can be a chance to focus on telling an engaging financial impact story. Or do they want raw data for creating the pie chart themselves? Think about how you’ll tie your financial story to a broader theme. What’s an Annual Report even for?

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

These days, Landis is the growth partner at Emergence Capital, where he helps tell the stories of the firm’s portfolio companies. More often than not, decks include a series of numbers and charts. The job of a story pitch is weaving a good narrative around these figures. And from those connections, we create a story.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lamberts ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. When economic analysts talk about a cyclical change, theyre talking about short-term fluctuations driven by the business cycle.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

So, when it comes to communicating your impact story, many foundations need to rely on the data in their form 990 to tell their story. It all starts with knowing the information you have and identifying the story you want to tell. Your 990-PF tells a story to those who are looking through the open data.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When communicating with data, viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers helps us quickly understand data, make comparisons, see patterns, and make better decisions. Be aware of the SCAM!

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

Here are five ways you can make sure you are communicating your organization’s financial information in a single, efficient story to help your board make effective data-driven decisions. Tell One Story You have a lot to cover during your time with the board, and only one sliver of the agenda in which to cover it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Flourish, founded in 2016 by Duncan Clark and Robin Houston, provides data visualization tools so that companies, like BBC, Sky, Deloitte and Moody’s, can turn data points into easily digestible charts, graphs and visuals. The Flourish acquisition follows two other acquisitions made in 2021, including Kaleido and Smartmockups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

But sometimes it’s fun to take a peek at the stories behind the raises and dig deeper into the numbers. That raise came after a $40 million Series B in April 2019 co-led by Stripe and Index Ventures that valued the company at $355 million. Both raises were notable and warranted coverage. So here we go.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. By sharing genuine, personal stories, nonprofits could connect more deeply with their audiences, encouraging more substantial and sustained giving. You can explore their gift catalog and specific stories here​. The good news?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When communicating with data, viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers helps us quickly understand data, make comparisons, see patterns, and make better decisions. Be aware of the SCAM!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Tableau

AUGUST 20, 2021

Don’t be afraid of “boring” bar charts. It can be tempting to go a long way and hack Tableau to create non-standard charts with deep visual appeal and a significant “wow” factor. Don’t forget, though, that you have an audience who want to understand your chart. although sometimes elaborate charts impress in other ways.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

This is a chart of Facebook’s monopoly — 91% of the personal social networking market. How can we forget Instagram’s copying of Snapchat’s stories? The answer to the FTC’s problem is hiding in plain sight: Snapchat’s investor presentations : Snapchat July 2021 investor presentation: Significant DAU and ARPU Opportunity.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts exist everywhere. Viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers helps us quickly understand data, see patterns, and make better decisions. In the same way that words can deceive, so can charts. Be aware of the SCAM!

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When communicating with data, viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers helps us quickly understand data, make comparisons, see patterns, and make better decisions. Be aware of the SCAM!

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Tableau

MARCH 6, 2021

Our existing community and those yet to join have so much to share, and the hub is a great platform for your stories, expertise and insights to reach more people. Luke Stanke, Circular Bar Charts: Why you should make them but never share them. Luke Stanke, Circular Bar Charts: Why you should make them but never share them.

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The Next Web

JUNE 13, 2017

Vanilla Ice can claim the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts but Jay Z built on his initial hit single and went on to have a far broader, and more lasting, impact on music and culture. How do we as creators, doers, and entrepreneurs encode the brilliance… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

Read more about their story. You won’t get this time back when the economy is booming and sales are off the charts. The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) did this and uncovered a large portion of people who attended their virtual events during the height of COVID had never been to an in-person event with them before.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The role of a Chief Financial Officer has always been to use data to tell the story of your organization’s past, present, and future. Who needs a crystal ball when you have data? CFO job duties generally include overseeing the finance team, analyzing and presenting financial statements, and budgeting and forecasting.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When viewing and creating charts, it’s vital that we gain the ability to critically explore and discern the integrity of the information and conclusions shown in charts. Don’t be SCAM’d!

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The mix of design with storytelling is well balanced; the story [they’re] telling is very clear and so we have charts that are easy to read … Any decisions to go off the beaten track feel like they've been made with intent,” - An excerpt from my judge’s feedback on one of the winning #Viz4ClimateAction entries. Radial Column Chart.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

What are our best stories to tell? Do we need to engage an external freelancer (writing and/or design)? Are we gathering photos all year long so we have enough come time to prepare our report? Is our donor list accurate and up-to-date? What will be our annual report's theme? Will we distribute in print and/or online?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

What might surprise you is just how dramatically “Baby Shark” flew up the charts. That could be an interesting change of pace, considering how much the music industry has dominated the YouTube charts this past decade. Baby Shark” has a mysterious origin story, by the way. 7) “Uptown Funk” only went from 3.5B to 3.99B. (#8)

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Tableau

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rosario Gauna and Donna Coles both wrote tutorials on the heels of the challenge, detailing how they approached the main requirements: donut charts, bar charts, divergent bar charts, and heatmaps. Project Starter: Part 2 – 3 Tips to Learn the Data’s Story. Chris DeMartini , DataBlick. Get Certified!

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VentureBeat

MARCH 19, 2025

Monster Hunter Wilds is the big success story of February, according to Circana's charts, though overall industry sales are still in decline. Read More

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Tableau

AUGUST 20, 2021

Don’t be afraid of “boring” bar charts. It can be tempting to go a long way and hack Tableau to create non-standard charts with deep visual appeal and a significant “wow” factor. Don’t forget, though, that you have an audience who want to understand your chart. although sometimes elaborate charts impress in other ways.

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TechNode

AUGUST 13, 2024

AFK Journey , a free-to-play fantasy RPG (role-playing game) released by Lilith Games, has reached the top of China’s iOS free game download charts having just been released last Thursday. Compared to its forerunner AFK Arena , the new game uses 3D modeling and detailed character illustrations, while retaining its fairytale style.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Dynamic Gauge Charts in Dashboards (Beta). The dynamic gauge chart is now available to use report metrics and field values to respond dynamically to the displayed business metrics. For example, the gauge chart can display a subtotal of a subsidiary (i.e., For example, the gauge chart can display a subtotal of a subsidiary (i.e.,

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Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

Nintendo's software compatibility chart on April 2, 2025. Update, January 24, 2025, 12:36 PM ET: This story has been updated to include speculation about price, potential game enhancements and the taste of cartridges. " We now have more information on which games are working thanks to a guide Nintendo put together.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

The YouTubers who manage those channels know how to tell a story and they are experts in their field. But I have learned a few things about each of those topics. Why dive into subjects that are off my beaten path of discovery? For one compelling reason. It gives brands authenticity, authority, and a dose of highly contagious excitement.

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