PowerPoint Data Visualization: High-Impact Charts and Graphs
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn from a Microsoft MVP how to create high-impact charts and data visualizations in PowerPoint.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Become a chart designer
- What to know before starting this course
- How we organize information
- Preattentive attributes
- Why 3D charts don't work
- Contrast creates emphasis
- When everything is bold, nothing is bold
- Color is best in moderation
- Using PowerPoint colors in Excel
- What is chart junk?
- Removing chart junk
- Streamlining numbers with custom formats
- Legends vs. direct labeling
- Sorting for clarity
- Labeling with "so what" titles
- Lines vs. columns
- Bullet charts
- Rules for pie charts
- Pie chart alternatives: Columns and stacked bars
- Pie chart alternatives: Tree maps
- Pie chart alternatives: Slope charts
- Pie chart alternatives: Waffle charts and icon arrays
- Large metrics
- Keep designing
Taught by
Echo Swinford
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