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Picking the Right Chart for Your Data

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Discover how to think more strategically about your data. Learn how to pick the best visual display for the type of data you're working with—and your ultimate communication goals.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Getting to KWYRWTS
  • What is KWY?
  • Get to KWY
2. The Standards
  • Chart categories
  • Comparisons: Bars and columns
  • Comparisons: Beyond bars
  • Trends: Line charts
  • Trends: Beyond the line
  • Proportions: Pie charts and more
  • Proportions: Beyond the circle
  • Relationships: Correlation
  • Relationships: Hierarchical and network
  • Relationships: Flow
  • Distribution: Histograms
  • Distribution: Beyond histograms
  • Deviation
  • Geographic
3. Beyond the Standards
  • To cumulative or not cumulative?
  • Outside the box
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Bill Shander

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