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How To Train Your Accountant

This post was originally published on The Data School blog between 2018 and July 2025, before our program was renamed to MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. References throughout this article to “The Data School” or “DS” all refer to what is now MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. The program, its people, and its commitment to launching outstanding analytics careers remain the same – just under a new name.

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People in business are often accustomed to working with tables (Excel tables in particular), and switching from reading rows of numbers to some intricate data visualizations causes confusion at the very least.

In this case, we can try something mid-of-the-road, combining familiar characteristics of a table with some extra dataviz features. One option here is a heat map.

One of these types of enriched tables (plus inline bar charts) you can find in my last dashboard for our #dashboard week, dedicated to the economic impact of COVID19.

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