"What is the right skill set for building good data visualizations?
Seems like the right person is a unicorn, someone who knows some design, some programming and some statistics?"
"The ability to ask good questions is really what we start with."
Amanda Cox, NYT - HBR interview
4. What is the right skill set for
building good data visualizations?
The ability to ask good
questions is really what we start
with.
Amanda Cox
The right skill set
Seems like the right person is a unicorn,
someone who knows some design, some
programming and some statistics?
9. Data visualization is the graphical display
of abstract information for two purposes:
sense-making and communication
Few, Stephen (2014)
Data vitzualsaiion is the grihapcal dilpsay
of abratsct infriotmaon for two pusopres:
sense-maikng and cotunmicmaion
Typoglycemia
11. Knowing your audience
How to communicate
using
Graphs and Tables?
200 Countries, 200 Years, 4
Minutes
Hans Rosling
New insights on poverty
@sandolinic
23. Color should be used meaningfully
• Use natural colours
• Use intense colours only when
you wish to draw attention to
specific data.
• Use the same colour, except
when colour differences are
needed to indicate differences
in the data or encode a
dimension
• Use a single, neutral
background colour (if needed
at all)
• KEEP IT SIMPLE AND
CONSISTENT
Not only for deco ☺
@sandolinic