Chapter 4. Visualization

Being data-driven is the opposite of being opinion-based, and prescatenting your data in a visual way is the best way to make your point. Managers respect data more than opinion. Data speaks for itself, and when you let data speak for you, things go better.

For example, if you walk into your boss's office and say, "We need $6,000 for more Internet bandwidth," they might interpret that as merely one person's opinion and tell you to go away. They might even think that you just want to download more videos when they aren't around.