Data visualization - the often overlooked basics

Episode 1

In today's episode, I review the different things you need to consider in creating an effective data visualization when presenting, which is the following:

• Who is the audience?
  • Level of understanding
  • KOL
  • Researcher
  • Statisticians
• What is the medium?
  • Presentation
  • Email
  • Paper
• How much time do you have?
• Who is the presenter? Is there one at all?
• Understand how your visualization is used downstream

References:
Storytelling with data - cole nussbaumer knaflic
Tamara Munzners book Visualization, Analysis and Design
Datastori.es
Big book of dashboards
Makeover Monday
D3 gallery on github
Special interest group VIS
Data visualization society

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