The challenge that many companies have when attempting to create a data driven culture is that the glamorous part, the chart and graph at the end of the process, is really about 10 percent or less of the work.

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You see in your internal visualizer a chart of supply and demand, price and quantity, perhaps depicted as a large X on a graph with two axes.

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But, thanks to the web, you can now create your own collection of ideas and data without all the pain of manipulating data into a plain, old chart or bar graph form.

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