Overview
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Communicate complex ideas quickly and thoroughly with data visualization. Turn information into artwork and intrigue your audience.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- 4x4 model for knowledge content
- Channel your audience
- So what is data visualization?
- ASK what makes a good data visualization
- Visual perception
- Understanding your data
- Explanatory
- The six Ws
- Three more Ws
- Explore your data: Visual exploration
- Explore your data: Indexes and ratios
- Convert your data: Indexes and ratios
- Convert your data: Percentiles
- Convert your data: Aggregating
- Convert your data: Grouping
- Convert your data: Data formats
- Sketches and wireframes
- Defining your narrative
- Making everything relatable
- Illustration and iconography
- Typography
- Position, size, color, contrast, and shape
- The importance of scale
- Legends and sources
- The right paradigm: Basic charts
- The right paradigm: Alternative charts
- The right paradigm: Hierarchical data
- The right paradigm: Maps
- The right paradigm: Creativity and innovation
- Challenge: Improving on "The perfect report"
- Solution: Improving on "The perfect report"
- Introducing motion
- When to go interactive
- How to think interactively
- Finding the right technology
- Next steps
