Plotline is a six-week course for analysts, product managers and consultants who are done watching solid work get politely ignored. Learn to build charts, memos and one-pagers that drive the decision — in whatever tool you already use.
Plotline is not a charting-software tutorial. It is a communication course built on 1,400+ real chart critiques — and every principle works in Excel, Sheets, Tableau, Power BI, Python or R.
Match the chart to the data’s job — magnitude, change, share or relationship — instead of reaching for whatever the tool suggests.
Strip gridlines, borders, legends and decoration until the one number that matters is impossible to miss.
One accent color, one message. Learn the sequential, diverging and categorical rules — and when to use plain gray.
Put the takeaway in the title and the evidence on the chart, so the slide still works when you are not in the room.
One page, one decision. The number, the chart and the ask — the format our alumni cite most in their reviews.
Walk a room through a chart without reading it aloud, and handle the “can we see it by region?” moment with grace.
Short lessons, live rebuilds of real (anonymized) corporate charts, and a worksheet at the end of every module that you apply to your own work the same week.
Former Head of Business Intelligence, Nordbank · 12 years in analytics leadership
Priya spent a decade building executive reporting for a 900-person bank — and watching brilliant analysis get shelved because it arrived as a 40-slide deck nobody opened twice.
Plotline is the course she wishes she could have handed her own team: every principle field-tested in board rooms and Monday metrics reviews, not lifted from a textbook. She has personally critiqued over 1,400 charts from students in 46 countries, and the patterns from those critiques shape every lesson.
“The chart was never the deliverable. The decision is the deliverable — the chart is just how it travels.”
Numbers from the last six cohorts, and what students did with them.
“I rebuilt our Monday metrics review around the one-pager from Module 6. Our CFO now reads it before I present. Three weeks later she asked me to run the quarterly board pack.”
“I stopped defending my roadmap with forty-slide decks. One annotated chart — built with the Module 5 structure — got two engineering hires approved in a single meeting.”
“The capstone critique was worth the price alone. My client deck went from 34 slides to 9, the partner noticed, and the recommendation passed without a follow-up meeting.”
Every plan includes all 41 lessons, all worksheets, lifetime access and free updates. Prices in USD; VAT invoices available.
Self-paced. For independent learners who want the material and the templates.
Six weeks with the group. For people who want feedback on their actual work.
For data and product teams that want a shared standard for reporting.
Go through the first two modules. If your next report isn’t noticeably sharper, email us within 30 days of purchase and we refund you in full — no forms, no call, no “quick chat to understand why.”
Plan for 2–3 hours: roughly 90 minutes of video and one worksheet you apply to your own work. Live critique sessions are one hour, always recorded, and scheduled in two time bands so both Americas and Europe/Asia can attend live.
Both. All 41 lessons are pre-recorded and available from day one. The Cohort plan adds six weekly live critique sessions where Priya reworks student submissions on screen. Core students follow the same material entirely at their own pace.
Whatever you already use. The course teaches principles, then shows the mechanics in Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau and Power BI, with companion notes for Python and R. If your tool can draw a bar chart and hide a gridline, you are equipped.
About 40% of students are not analysts: product managers, founders, consultants, researchers, finance and ops people. If you regularly put numbers in front of someone who decides things, the course is built for you. The capstone uses your data, so the work is immediately yours.
Usually, yes — 68% of students expense it. Checkout produces a proper VAT invoice, and we provide a short justification letter you can forward to your manager. Teams of five or more should take the Team plan for purchase-order billing.
Then it shouldn’t cost you anything. Watch the first two modules; if you are not convinced, email us within 30 days for a full refund. We honor every request — refunds ran at 2.1% across the last six cohorts.
Six weeks, eight modules, one capstone built on your own data.
Join Cohort 7 — starts August 341 seats remaining of 250 · enrollment closes July 30