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Data Visualization Tips and Tricks

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Overview

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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

Taught by

Matt Francis

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