Media & Technology - Visualization - Presentation
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Slide presentation (10 minutes)
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Highlights
Make your data work best for you
- Clean your data
- Transform your data from wide format to long format
Create your narrative
- What will your visualization tell people?
- How does this narrative fit into your project?
Tips
- Don’t encode more than 10 colors
- Never truncate bars
Further reading and learning
Books
- Cairo, Alberto. Links to an external site. The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization. Berkeley, Calif.: New Riders, 2013.
- Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations. Beverly, Mass.: Rockport Pub., 2013.
- Ware, Colin. Visual Thinking for Design. Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies. Burlington, Mass. : Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann ; Elsevier Science & Technology, 2008.
- Wilke, Claus O. Fundamentals of Data Visualization Links to an external site.. Online preview.
- Kirk, Andy. Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2016.
LinkedIn learning tutorials
- Learning Data Visualization Links to an external site.
- Data Visualization: Storytelling Links to an external site.
- Data Visualization: Best Practices Links to an external site.
Blogs and websites
- Flowing Data Links to an external site.
- Visualizing Data Links to an external site. (Andy Kirk)
- Eager Eyes: Visualization and Visual Communication Links to an external site.
For fun
- WTF Viz Links to an external site.
- Junk Charts Links to an external site.
- XKCD Links to an external site.
- Wait But Why Links to an external site.
- Spurious Correlations Links to an external site.
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