By Dieuwertje van Dijk, Data Visualization Designer at Datylon Recently I wrote a ‘deep dive’ blog post about bar charts. The bar chart is used often because of its simplicity and because it is very easy to understand for the general public. However, sometimes you might want to look beyond…

By Kosma Hess, Marketing Manager at Datylon Ask any dataviz expert and they will tell you there aren’t many things as annoying as the wrong use of data visualizations. Well, duh. It’s easy to say if your job is to know all about it. But what about the rest of…

By Ivan Kilin, Data Visualization Specialist at Datylon English breakfast is a widely known traditional meal. Its history dates back to the 14-century’s gentry, but over time it became a common meal for all parts of British society. It can be the only meal of the day and provides enough…

The city of Antwerp, in the Flemish region of Belgium, is a big urban and economic hub. With a constantly growing population, currently surpassing half a million inhabitants, Antwerp is also the second biggest metropolitan region in the country. Being Europe’s second-largest port it also plays an important role internationally. …

By Dieuwertje van Dijk, Data Visualization Designer at Datylon Bar charts and pencils: what do they have in common? When writing this blog, I really don’t know how to start. What can I write about a bar chart that is interesting for you to read or hasn’t been already said…

By Ivan Kilin, Data Visualization Specialist at Datylon How do we see the world in colors? It all starts with the light. The light can come from the Sun, fire or a lamp sending waves of different lengths. The surfaces around us have different capacities for absorbing wavelengths, so some…

POM, a Belgian fin-tech scale-up, was looking for a way to improve the monthly reporting on their payment services. The raw data formats needed to be replaced by a visually appealing and on-brand report template. Also, the manual process needed to be automated to save time and scale the service. Challenges with report design and production …

By Dieuwertje van Dijk, Data Visualization Designer at Datylon When somebody asks me about my profession and I tell them that I’m a data visualization designer, most people have no clue what I’m actually doing. Nowadays it has become a bit easier to explain my passion because of the commonly…

By Kosma Hess, Digital Marketer at Datylon Not long ago, Datylon decided to join the software reviews platform Capterra. There are many similar websites on the Internet and they don’t need to be mutually exclusive. But as we know, Rome wasn’t built in a day. …