A gallery of some of my more popular Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management cartoons — feel free to use these in your presentations, university courses, books etc, for free, as long as you drop me a line to let me know what you have planned (telliott at timoelliott dot com),
Top cartoon page here, including links to analytics cartoons, more analytics cartoons and artificial intelligence cartoons, marketing cartoons, social cartoons, innovation cartoons, sustainability cartoons.
Opinions Are Good. Data is Better.
Watch out for “Gut Feel”!
Strategic Decisions…
The Bad Data Breakup
Big Data Boasts
What You Get If You Don’t Have Analytics. A HIPPO.
Some Middle Managers Don’t Like Analytics
There’s No Reward Without Risk
One of The Ironies of Calculating the ROI for BI
What’s the ROI of What You Don’t Know?
Business Intelligence Wish Fulfilment
What’s The ROI of Business Intelligence? Higher than the ROI of Ignorance.
Data Quality? Cross Your Fingers And Hope…
The Daily Life of a BI Incompetency Center
Stop Confusing Me With Facts
Don’t Be A Turkey When It Comes To Predictive Analytics
These Analytics Folks Think They Know Everything!
Is Everybody Else Doing It While You Just Watch?
Have ERP? Thank Heavens for Analytics
Data lake? Bring it on!
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199 responses to “Analytics Cartoons”
Hi Timo,
I am preparing slides for my “Predictive Analytics with R” undergraduate course, and I’d love to use some of your cartoons with your permission to help illustrate a few ideas! Pardon me for flattering, but I find your cartoons minimalistic (big plus), funny (a huge plus), and very much to the point (huge plus-plus).
Many thanks for considering my request.
— George
George, please go ahead — and good luck with your course
Hi, Timo. With your permission, I’d love to use your cartoon (“Yes sir, you can absolutely trust those numbers”) in a blog for our website. Hope to hear from you and keep up the good work!
Rok Globočnik
Rok, please go ahead, thanks for letting me know…
Timo,
I’d love to use a few of these cartoons with your permission to help illustrate a few topics on my presentation! The content will be aimed to help colleagues and students learn how to create and present data to executive leaders.
Thanks!
Ben, Please go ahead! Good luck with your presentation!
Hello, really great stuff! I would love to use one or two of your cartoons for a presentation. Would that be okay with you? Thank you.
Hi Timo
With your permission, I’d like to use one of your great data cartoons as part of a presentation in work. Many thanks!
Karen
I would like to use your cartoons in a presentation I am to make on AI in healthcare. I understand you allow members of the public to use your material. Please correct me if I am wrong. I will give you full attribution.
Greetings, I was writing to see if I can get permission to use one or two cartoons. The letter email address on this page did not work for me, so I’m filling out a form. Hope to hear from you and keep up the good work!
Hi Timo,
I’m a data analyst, and I found your cartoons really resonant.
I’d love to use your cartoon “When you two have finished arguing your opinions, I actually have data!” in a presentation for my colleagues if you’re fine with that. I think this cartoon perfectly described why I love my job. Thank you!
Tim,
I would like to use your cartoons in some presentations I am doing for my university. I appreciate the work you have done to illustrate insights related to data.
Hi, Timo. I’d love to use your cartoon about data and opinions (“When you two have finished arguing your opinions, I actually have data!”) in a presentation for our freshman writing students. I’m developing the presentation for myself and for other teachers in my department (Writing and Rhetoric).
Kellye — please go ahead, I’m honored!
I would love to put one of your cartoons in a newsletter. One is the “Our dashboards are so advanced, they automatically filter out any bad news” and also
Hello Tim,
I really liked one of your cartoons. I was wondering if I could have your permission to include it in a slide that talks about how important data cleaning is for our staff training.
This cartoon has the employee with fingers crossed at the back and saying to his manager “You can trust the numbers”.
Rohan, thanks for asking, thanks for letting me know which one you were interested in, in particular — and please go ahead!
Hi Timo,
Very nice cartoons.
With your permission, I would like to use some of your cartoons in my university course (Analytics).
Thanks!
Br, Jie
Jie, I’d be delighted — please go ahead, and I hope your students enjoy the course…
I would like to use your marketing analytics cartoon in an upcoming IABC seminar. Thanks, Michele
Michele, please go ahead!
Dear Timo,
with your permission I would like to embed one or more of your great cartoons in a presentation.
Thank you!
Robbert,
I’m honored — thanks for letting me know, please go ahead, and best of luck with your presentation… (which ones, just out of interest?)
Regards,
Timo
Timo,
currently I am thinking of “the ultimate financial asset” and “it´s not you, it´s your data”…your cartoons make it pretty hard to decide 🙂
Cheers
Robbert
great cartoons, they hit the mark, I would also like to use one or two in a presentation (with appropriate credit given)
Sure!
Hello Timo, I would like to use some cartoons in my presentations.
Thanks
Hi Timo,
Thanks for these cartoons, with your permission I will use a couple of them in my presentation (an introduction to data science).
Thanks!
Yannick, thanks for letting me know, and good luck with your presentation!
Hello Timo,
I would like to use your cartoon as part of my presentation for a small business team in Budapest.
Thanks!
Sir, With your permission, would like to use a few of the cartoons for my linkedin Blog post .
Ganesh, please go ahead…
Hi Timo
Data, Analytics, BI and related concepts often send non-data professionals running the other way. Your cartoons make for amazing ice breakers that ease readers into keeping an open mind around very technical and difficult discussions.
I can’t thank you enough for making these open and freely available for varied purposes.
With your consent I would like to use your cartoons in our presentations and blogs.
Thanks.
Urvashi, please go ahead!
Hi Timo
Thanks for these.
With your permission I am using a few for our presentations on BI and media posts.
Kind Regards,
Uma
Hi Tim,
Your cartoons are spon on 🙂
With your permission I would like to use some of them for presentations.
Thanks and kind regards,
Eric
Hi Timo,
Your cartoons are really amazing, with your permission I will use it in my presentation.
Thanks a ton for this lovely creation.
Hello Timo,
I found several of your cartoons very relevant to a topic I am will presenting. I, with your permission, would like to use some of them in my presentation (point of view).
Thanks a ton !!!
Rahul,
Please go ahead!
Regards,
Timo
Hi How are you?
Wow~ Analytics cartoons!! So funny and specific!
Your cartoons are very fantastic!! Could you allow me to use some of your images to make a marketing webpage I am trying to make.
Your kind advice would be very much appreciated.
Duk Ahn, assuming that it’s a reputable page, please go ahead!!
Hi Timo,
Your cartoons are great and love your sense of humour. I would like to use them in my LinkedIn post about data..
Thanks so much!
Anand, thank you for asking! Please go ahead…
Hi Timo,
Your cartoons are quite humorous. I would like to use them in my LinkedIn post about communicating bad news in analytics.
Thanks.
Sorry for the late reply — please go ahead!
Great images, very apt and imaginative. Please can I use a couple of them in an internal document to bring home a point?
Hi Timo,
I love your sense of humour and would like to use a couple of your cartoons on AI and analytics in a presentation I am doing to staff. I am hoping to keep users engaged in these covid times presenting over Zoom. Fingers crossed it hits the spot. Thank you in advance.
Awesome cartoons, thanks for sharing!
Hi there Mr Elliott,
I am teaching a ‘data for decision making’ unit this term. Your cartoons really illustrate to students the points I am trying to make. I would really like to use a few of your cartoons if that is okay with you?
Jodie,
I’m (very) honored. Please go ahead — and good luck to the future generation of deciders! (And let me know if you ever need a speaker in Tasmania 🙂 )
going to use the ‘we don’t let people use the data warehouse – that would slow it down too much’ cartoon at a Citrix CUGC event…
funny.
John, thanks for letting me know, and good luck…
Hello Mr. Elliott,
Found several of your cartoons very relevant to a topic I am working on. I, with your permission, would like to use some of them in my presentation (point of view).
Thanks a ton !!!
Kamal,
Please go ahead!
Regards,
Timo
Hey, cool cartoons!
I would like to use one in my university course on digitalization in business law. Many thanks!
Patrick, please go ahead, and good luck with your course (I hope it’s as interesting as it sounds… my wife is a lawyer, and she worked on some dossiers to do with deep linking back in the early days of the web — I’m not sure if the issues raised at the time are fully covered even today!)
Hi Timo,
Just shared one of your cartoons with my fellow course mates and also shared your website with my professor!
Love the cartoons for being so relatable and humorous.
Thank you for giving the permission to share.
Glad they were useful!
Regards,
Timo
Hi Timo,
I absolutely love your cartoons. We plan to use some of them in a presentation we give in Berlin in two weeks.
Hope this is OK 🙂
Bart,
Sorry about the really late reply! Yes, no problem — I hope the presentation went well…
Regards,
Timo
Hi Timo,
I love your cartoons. Hope it’s OK if we use some of them in a presentation we give in Berlin in two weeks.
Thanks!
Bart
Hi, Great work and spot-on humour. Could I please use some of your amazing drawings for my Empathy workshop presentation which will be featured in my portfolio?
Many thanks
Wow, your cartoons are so good! With your permission, I would like to use two of them in my presentation to address the challenges related to data processing. Many thanks for your excellent work!
Yes, please go ahead…
Hey Timo!
Great cartoons!
I’d like to use them on my social media feeds and on the Power BI user group, with your permission,
Please let me know ASAP.
Thanks!
Your comics are better than my tweets! With your permission I’m using a few in my social media feeds. Thanks!
Timo, nice cartoons! Requesting permission to share them with CDC’s GEEKS health informatics mentors and trainees in global health (Africa and Asia).
Herman, sorry for the late reply — please go ahead…
Hi Timo,
I’d like to use some of your data-cartoons for my study. They’re right to the point. Thanks
Stanley
very useful and informed cartoons
Hello Timo,
With your permission, I am using your cartoon as part of my presentation in ASQ Vancouver Conference (26 Sept 18).
Thanks!
Hey there,
fun stuff.
We would like to use some of your cartoons for our medium.com hosted blog about running a startup as CTO in Stuttgart, Germany.
Hello Timo, Your creations are very apt in today’s scenario. With your permission, would like to use few of them in my presentations.
Thanks!