Understanding Tools and Imposing Constraints

We often complain about the constraints we face when communicating via a presentation: we don’t have enough time, we don’t have the right tools, we are only allowed a limited number of slides. In this episode, Cole discusses how constraints can actually be amazing and how imposing constraints intentionally on our work can better arm us to deal with those constraints that are less in our control. Cole also answers reader questions on strategies for upskilling data visualization across an organization, the best place to put monetary symbols, using different types of graphs together, and the use of color in data visualization.

LINKS:

Recent blog post illustrating different graph types on same slide

March #SWDchallenge recap: bring on the bars

Updates: upcoming public workshop in SF, Audible book

Big Book of Dashboards

Workshop/training inquiries: inquiry@storytellingwithdata.com

Questions? email askcole@storytellingwithdata.com

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