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ERIN WALDRON FROM DATA DOZEN ◍ MAY 7, 2019 AT KC DAMA DAY

BRINGING DATA TO LIFE:WHY DATA VISUALIZATION MATTERS FOR ALL DATA PEOPLE

IMAGINE CREATING THIS DATA SET▸ On the Ground

▹ Animals move▹ Animals look similar▹ Extinct or unseen

▸ Taxonomy▹ Inclusion▹ Categories▹ Granularity

▸ Consistency▹ Different teams▹ Across multiple regions▹ Spanning years

ERIN WALDRONwww.datadozen.com

BRINGING DATA TO LIFE: WHY DATA VISUALIZATION MATTERS FOR ALL DATA PEOPLE

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Most people .don’t read data.

WHAT WE’LL DO TODAY

1 Bringing Data to Life: Why Data Visualization Matters for All Data People

2 Form Follows Function: Picking the Right Chart for Different Data

3 Long and Skinny Data: Structuring Data for Visualization

4 Visualization Makeovers: Avoiding the Most Common Data Visualization Mistakes

5 The Communication Checklist: Creating Better Organizational Conversations Around Data

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DATA VISUALIZATION IS SIMPLE

We encode our data in:

▸ Points▸ Lines▸ Area

And we tell multiple marks apart by their:

▸ Position▸ Size▸ Color▸ Shape

COMMON CHART TYPES

▸ Bar Charts▸ Line Graphs▸ Area Charts▸ Pie Chart▸ Timelines▸ Dot Map

▸ Gantt Chart▸ Box and Whisker▸ Bullet Graph▸ Bump Chart▸ Diverging Bars▸ Choropleth Map

▸ Histograms▸ Donut Chart▸ Treemap▸ Heatmap▸ Scatterplots▸ Small Multiples

A CHART OF BIOGRAPHYJOSEPH PRIESTLEY

-TIMELINE-

WHEAT & WAGESWILLIAM PLAYFAIR

-BAR CHART-

EXPORTS AND IMPORTSWILLIAM PLAYFAIR

-LINE GRAPH-

POPULATION AND REVENUEWILLIAM PLAYFAIR

-PIE CHART-

CHOLERA NEAR BROAD STREETJOHN SNOW

-DOT MAP-

CAUSES OF MORTALITYFLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

-ROSE GRAPH-

SUCCESSIVE LOSSES IN MENOF THE FRENCH ARMY IN

THE CAMPAIGN OF RUSSIA CHARLES MINARD

-FLOW CHART-

Form follows .function.

THE HISTORY OF THE NFLMATT CHAMBERS

-SMALL MULTIPLES-

THE AGE OF BORDERSPISSEGURI82

THE SCALE OF THE MIGRANT CRISISNEW YORK TIMES

-AREA CHART-

WHOSE HERITAGESOUTHERN POVERTY

LAW CENTER

-FREQUENCY CHART-

ONE PERSON, ONE DOTDEMOGRAPHICS RESEARCH GROUP

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA2010

-AREA CHART-

ONE PERSON, ONE DOTDEMOGRAPHICS RESEARCH GROUP

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA2010

-AREA CHART-

CREATIVE ROUTINESRJ ANDREWS

-DONUT CHARTS-

A WEEK OF LAUGHSGIORGIA LUPI &

STEFANIE POSAVEC2015

-QUANTIFIED SELF-

Let’s .build.

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