{"id":17041,"date":"2021-08-11T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=17041"},"modified":"2021-08-11T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:31:09","slug":"data-visualization-boost-business-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-marketing\/data-visualization-boost-business-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can use data visualization to boost your business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is IKEA so successful?<\/p>\n

…Okay, great meatballs and mediocre sawdust is the real answer, but at least a bit of their sweet sweet furniture takeover included their pictograph instructions!<\/p>\n

Face it, as a species, we\u2019re not great at visualizing data. You can tell someone how much more a billion is than a million<\/a>, but what REALLY illuminates the point is illustrated data like these graphics from the good folks at the MegaPenny Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See, here\u2019s a million in pennies.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s about… one extra friend who has a pickup, a pizza with three toppings, and an Epsom salt bath worth of moving?<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a billion.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

That… requires a fleet of professionals with Class A Commercial Drivers\u2019 Licenses. And you\u2019d probably need to let them use your Epsom salts too.<\/p>\n

\"Interactive<\/p>\n

So as we move into a brand new year, how do we GET better at data illustration? I always stood by the idea of finding someone with equal parts mathematical and design capability to live in my house (graphics arts nerds, slide into my DMs, please and thanks).<\/p>\n

But for those of us with companies to run and reasonable expectations, there\u2019s data<\/a> visualization software out there!<\/p>\n

Niel Patel was nice enough to shout out a few different services for us<\/a>, and I definitely appreciate his list of what to look for when you\u2019re looking! I paraphrased him a little here:<\/p>\n

Visualization Capabilities<\/strong> – How pretty do you want it, and what does sexy data look like for you?<\/p>\n

This category was further broken down into the types of visualization you may need for different species of presentation:<\/p>\n

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