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In technical communication, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. There are multiple ways to ensure this principle. Some of these ways require careful chart fine-tuning. However, there is one tool that is easy to master, fast to apply, and that provides a high return on the investment rate. I refer to chart titles. In this talk, I had two main theses. My first thesis is that most of you suck in communication (and not only data visualization). My second thesis is that you can quickly improve your graphs by merely adding a good title. The importance of good titles is not new to my preaching, but I thought it was an excellent thing to formalize this thesis a bit, and I'm thankful to the NDR organizers for giving me this opportunity. This is the slide stack from my NDR presentation. See my post https://gorelik.net/2020/07/28/how-to-suck-less-in-data-visualization-and-professional-communication/
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The biggest missed opportunity in data visualization
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net The biggest missed opportunity in data visualization
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net The biggest missed opportunity in data communication visualization
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net The biggest missed opportunity in professional communication data communication visualization
- The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing
- Most of you suck.
- Most of you suck, but you don’t have to.
- Who am I? The biggest missed opportunity in data visualization Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net 2001
- The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing
- Is this a good graph?
- What’s the main thing here?
- What’s the main thing here?
- What’s the main thing here?
- The biggest missed opportunity in data visualization Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do?
- Why most of you suck?
- Becoming a data scientist is easy
- Becoming a data engineer is easy
- Becoming a data analyst is easy
- Becoming a programmer is easy
- Becoming a statistician is easy
- Becoming a data scientist/programmer/statistician is easy
- “Your analyses are fascinating, although I don’t understand 95% of them” My co-worker in an anonymous feedback
- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- If you work hard and no one is around who understands you, do you actually work?
- Communication?
- Most of you suck (relatively)
- What’s the main thing here?
- “Your analyses are fascinating, although I don’t understand 95% of them” My co-worker in an anonymous feedback
- “Storytelling isn’t a soft skill; storytelling is fundamental” Geoff Ralston, CEO Y-Combinator
- Most of you suck
- When running away, I don’t need to outrun the lion, I need to outrun you
- Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do? The biggest missed opportunity in data visualization Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net
- What you usually do
- The typical workflow
- results = do_stuff() visualize(results)
- results = do_stuff() visualize_with_diagnostics(results)
- results = do_stuff() visualize_with_diagnostics( results, metrics=True )
- for normalization in ( 'none', 'minmax', 'to_mean', ... ): for method in ( 'LR', 'SVM', 'RNN', ... ): results = do_stuff( normalization=normalization, method=method ) fig = visualize_with_diagnostics( results, metrics=True, title=f'{normalization} {method}.' ) fig.savefig(f'figs/{normalization}_{method}.png')
- Where’s that presentation?
- What’s the main thing here?
- Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do? The biggest missed opportunity in data visualization Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net
- What should you do?
- Reading is easier Thinking is hard
- Text
- Subvocalization
- Short
- טקסט نص ⽂本
- “What” vs. “So what?”
- Data dynamics
- Our data is highly seasonal
- ECG
- No signs of arrhythmia or Q-T prolongation
- You’re OK
- Prediction performance
- Why writing conclusions? • Convince • Discipline • Endanger
- Subvocalization
- I’ll tell you what to think
- Boris Gorelik is the best
- Why writing conclusions? • Convince • Discipline • Endanger
- Discipline
- Does the graph say what I say that it says?
- Why writing conclusions? • Convince • Discipline • Endanger
- Make claims that future observations might show to be false Karl Popper (not a citation)
- Why writing conclusions? • Convince • Discipline • Endanger
- It’sFAST
- It’sFAST
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do?
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do?
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do?
- Boris Gorelik, Ph.D Freelance consultant: data science & visualization | boris@gorelik.net Why most of you suck? What do you usually do? What should you do?
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