Data Visualization Consultant

Description

John “Otto” Ottinger is a data visualizer, specializing in the visual design of complex data systems. The founder and Managing Director of the Datalabs Agency, a data visualization & consultancy firm, Otto works at the intersection of user experience (UX) design, visual analytics, and storytelling. He started his career as an editor and interactive designer at National Geographic, in Washington, DC.

There he learned the same information design and storytelling techniques that he teaches in his workshops. Now in his role at Datalabs, Otto has gone on to design software, dashboards, infographics, and data tools for clients like Nestlé, Mercedes-Benz, Bupa, BlackRock, Adidas, eBay, Marriott, CommBank, and HCF, among others.

Data agency client of Datalabs, Mercedes-Benz

The Right Insights?

Get our honest advice about what insights are useful to your dashboard’s audience.

The Best Design?

We’ll suggest the best layout, different charts, & changes to your dashboard’s user experience.

The Correct Interactions?

Are you using the correct dropdowns, filters, & UI components in your dashboard?

Visualising Economic Data

Sydney, Australia

Data Viz & Storytelling

Hong Kong, SAR

Power Of Infographic Design

Canberra, Australia

Visualising Big Data

Sydney, Australia

Data Journalism

Doha, Qatar

Data Viz & Storytelling

Melbourne, Australia

Data Visualization in Finance

Hong Kong, SAR

Data Viz & Storytelling

Washington, DC

Training & Workshops

Infographics & Report Design

Learn the methods to designing professional infographics.

Intro to Data Viz & Storytelling

Learn the fundamentals and advance to the next level.

The best part about running a data agency is the breadth of clients and industry challenges to work with. By “breadth of clients” I mean it runs the gamut of Fortune 500, NASDAQ, and ASX 200 (Australia’s equivalent). Plus, this agency takes me to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. This leads me to my second favorite part: “Industry challenges.” These same companies — no matter if they work in banking, energy, manufacturing, or education — have similar problems.

The data couldn’t be more different. However, what gets put to me is always a similar challenge.

This one challenge I classify and place into three “buckets”: lack of simplicity, lack of creativity, or inability to communicate visually.

So over my 16+ years as a data visualizer, I’ve developed what could be called a data design philosophy and methodology to tackle these three challenges. To me, data visualization paired with visual communication is a human-to-human art form. Along with my data visualization style, this is what gives a Datalabs Agency piece of work a distinct look and feel.

This same philosophy is also why clients around the globe come to me.

Global Sales Analytics

Stuttgart, Germany

Revenue Dashboards, APAC

Hong Kong, SAR

Silicon Chip Manufacturing

San Francisco, California

Visualizing Procurement Data

Herzogenrauch, Germany

Time With a Data Visualization Expert

Book an hour or secure a half day. Soon your session with us with get at the core of your dashboard’s problems.

A Visual Critique

You’ll receive our recommendations on a visually-annotated PDF — everything from chart changes to icon ideas to layout and grid tweaks.

Our data visualization consultants have seen a lot of bad dashboards, reports, and infographics. We know how to solve common design problems and quickly arrive at better choices in charts, insights, layouts, data strategies — you name it. Most importantly, if you seek our advice, we can get your project moving again in the right direction.

Book Time With a Data Visualization Consultant Now.

The Datalabs Agency brings over twelve years of analytics and data visualization design experience. We’ll bring relevant advice, workarounds, and solutions from our portfolio of past client projects. We can suggest options and solve big problems in the usability, structure, and visualizations found in your existing project. We can also discuss the challenges found in your teams’ workflow and abilities when comes to visualizing data. And finally, we have a vast knowledge of the tools and the software that you may be using, be it Power BI, PowerPoint, or Tableau.

Dashboard design sketch in black and white

Final dashboard design from our critique and review process

ABOVE: Drag the yellow icon found at the center of the image. This is a before-and-after example of a dashboard design one of our data visualization consultants helped with.

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Additional information

Facilitator	Otto Ottinger, Managing Director
Services	Dashboard design audit, user interface review, critique of dashboard's interactions, recommendations for charts & graphs, redesign suggestions
Video Conferencing Software	Zoom, Microsoft Teams

Data Visualization Consultant

Description

Founder & Managing Director of the Datalabs Agency

Otto Ottinger

Some of the notable brands Otto has worked with...