As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

I am uncomfortable with the growing emphasis on big data and its stylist, visualization. Don’t get me wrong — I love infographic representations of large data sets. The value of representing ...