When you avoid the mistakes I used to make, your audience will be set up to actually make use of your survey data and take action.
Smart data visualizers take these steps first because it’ll increase the odds that the audience will comprehend the data, have necessary conversations, and take action.
Join a rare, public session of the Data Viz Academy Office Hours. Pitch a data viz question of your own and give input to others.
That’s the way we’ve always done it. TTWWADI. Death to innovation. Here are questions to determine if traditional data reporting still works.
Most institutions already have the talent and the software. People just need to expand their bench of possible chart choices.
Every year, I wonder: Do we still need to be concerned about black and white viewing for our data viz and designs? Turns out…yes!
Statistics can lie and charts can aid and abet. To do our audience justice, we have to visualize data responsibly. Avoid these traps.
When you know strong data visualization is crucial to your team’s success but you have a boss stuck in Windows 95, you need to manage up. You need sneaky ways to launch a data viz revolution at work.
When you use color as a connector between the different points of your data story, you ease the effort it would take your audience to follow along. You lower the mental hurdles so they can come with you.
Don’t google “data scorecard.” It’s full of stoplight color schemes. I have 3 solid reasons why the death grip on red-yellow-green has to go.
