Start thinking more clearly and strategically about data visualization. Learn how to leverage best practices in visualization and design to communicate data to any audience.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Moving from analysis to visualization
- Meeting today's critical communications challenges
- Focus using the KWYs
- Understanding visual perception
- Using the right data
- The power of story
- Headlines bring focus
- Picking the right chart
- Exploring chart options
- Simple tips and tools for using color in data visualization
- Tips for axes, labeling, and legends
- Setting scales in data visualization
- Some thoughts about tools
- Sketching and wireframing your data visualizations
- What about leave behinds?
- Rethinking text-based slides
- Rethinking some charts
- The power of simplification: Convincing your bosses
- Next steps
Taught by
Bill Shander
