Data Visualization Tips and Tricks

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Free Online Course: Data Visualization Tips and Tricks provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Data Visualization Tips and Tricks is taught by Matt Francis.

Overview
  • Do data viz the right way every time. Get data visualization tips to choose the right visualization, chart relationships, visualize data distributions, create maps, and more.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • The tips and tricks to data visualization
    • What you should know
    • Exercise files
    1. The Rules of Effective Data Visualization
    • Why visualize data?
    • What kind of visualization should you make?
    2. Comparing Data Sets
    • Visualize comparisons in data
    • Bar charts across categories
    • Line charts over time
    • Sparklines for important events
    • Gantt charts and time difference
    • Treemaps for long tail data
    • Highlight tables and heat maps
    • Slope charts for changes between dates
    • Optimize dashboard layout with small multiples
    3. Data Relationships
    • Visualize relationships in data
    • Compare multiple variables within scatter plots
    4. Distributions with Your Dataset
    • Visualize data distributions
    • Histograms for a single measure
    • Box plots for multiple dimensions
    5. Compositions of Data
    • Visualize data composition
    • Improve the use of pie charts
    • Stacked bar charts
    • 100% stacked bars
    • Stacked area chart
    • 100% stacked area chart
    6. Geographic Data
    • Visualize geographic data
    • When to map geographic data
    • Compare filled maps and symbol maps
    • Alternative techniques with tilemaps
    Conclusion
    • Next steps for more data visualization