> Given that you've "come across" the two best resources in the field, I wonder if your lack of an "Aha!" moment is because you're not answering real questions

> Given that you've "come across" the two best resources in the field, I wonder if your lack of an "Aha!" moment is because you're not answering real questions with it. Nailed it I think. It's one thing to do the technical exercise, another to try and get meaningful results when you don't know what you're looking for. I haven't read Stephen Few's books, only newsletters and online articles. It sounds like his books are worth getting. I own the set of Edward Tufte's - I pored over them as a student and each is a work of art in itself. > since you don't have a real use case, you're imagining things that might be useful for an unknown user with unknown needs, and that's not how reports or dashboards work. You design a chart to answer a question, not come up with questions to ask based on a chart (we're not talking about ad-hoc visualization for exploration, here). I have got that one backwards before :) Thank you for your fantastic reply!