At the dB7 Design and Analytics Studio, we craft and publish data-driven stories and interactive dashboards.

Sankey Chart: Emigration to New York from Ireland between 1846 and 1854. Matt Herron. 2021.

Sankey Chart: Emigration to New York from Ireland between 1846 and 1854. Matt Herron. 2021.

The dB7 Design and Analytics Studio is based in Dublin 7, Ireland. We collate, prepare, analyse and streamline the flow of data to create visualisations that help companies and organisations make better-informed decisions. We apply our experience of business processes, use cutting-edge technologies to connect, model and validate your data, and our creativity to craft branded, data stories, dashboards, presentations, and marketing collateral.


Matt Herron | dB7 Design and Analytics Studio | Data Visualisation and Publishing Consultant.

My passion is to help clients better understand their data by creating visually engaging fact-based stories and dashboards. I believe that data flow and integrity are key to a successful project and combined with charts and graphics designed with best practice, can help to uncover new insights and enable customers make better-informed decisions. I am based between Dublin and London and have nearly 20 years of experience in financial publishing, collating large amounts of data to distill into fact-based marketing documents. If you would like to find out more or have a project you would like to discuss please contact me via our contact for consultation page.

Our Mission
Our mission is to help our clients and customers understand their data and make better-informed decisions.


Our Process
During a consultation, we work with clients to understand their requirements and envisage how a story, dashboard, or project should work from an end user’s perspective. We then begin to implement our end-to-end six-step process to ensure we meet the agreed objectives. Read more

Our Services and Tools

  • Research, Data Collation, Preparation, Analysis and Modeling: Tableau Prep | Alteryx | SQL | Microsft Azure | Excel.

  • Visual Design: Tableau | Power BI | Illustrator | InDesign | PhotoShop | PowerPoint.

  • Branding: Moodboards | Logo Design | Templates in InDesign | Marketing Materials.

  • Publishing and Distribution: Squarespace | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter.

Blog
With a multitude of tools, books, blogs, community groups, podcasts, and learning programmes, to help us improve our data visualisation skills, it can be somewhat daunting when navigating the world of data viz. In the blog, I share some of the things I have found useful to help me continually improve my approach to visual analytics as well as examples of some of the projects I have worked on. Read more.

Contact for Consultation
To reach out for a consultation call me on 00 353 82 424 9249 or fill out the form here and send me your contact information and requirements.