Learning Data Visualization

Communicate complex ideas quickly and thoroughly with data visualization. Turn information into artwork and intrigue your audience.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Big Idea

• 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

2. Information Hierarchy

• 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

3. The Analog Process

• Sketches and wireframes

4. Storytelling

• Defining your narrative
• Making everything relatable

5. Visual Display

• 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"

6. Interactivity

• Introducing motion
• When to go interactive
• How to think interactively
• Finding the right technology

Conclusion

• Next steps