Data Visualization Made Simple
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Interactive Lessons
10+ Interactive Lessons | 108+ Exercises | 68+ Flashcards | 68+ Glossary of terms
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29+ Pre Assessment Questions |
1
Preface
2
Becoming Visual
- What Is Data Visualization?
- Who Are Visualization Designers and What Do They Do?
- Why Use Data Visualization?
- How Do You Incorporate the Visualization Process Into Practice?
- Exercises
- Icons
3
The Tools
- Basic Productivity Applications
- Visualization Software
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Programming Packages
- A Criteria for Selecting Tools to Build Data Graphics
- Exercises
4
The Graphics
- Comparisons of Categories and Time
- Distributions
- Proportions
- Relationships
- Locations
- Trends—Showing Comparisons Over Time or Composition Over Time
- Word Frequency and Sentiment
- Connections and Networks
- Chart Interface
- Exercises
5
The Data
- Understand Your Data
- Preparing Your Data
- Compute Descriptive Statistics
- Explore the Data Visually
- Devise the Problem, Challenge, and/or Questions
- Exercises
6
The Design
- Design Standards
- Design Standards Checklist
- Exercises
7
The Audience
- Optimize Your Data Story
- Strategies for Maximizing Retention and Minimizing Overload
- Communicate the Key Message
- Exercises
8
The Presentation
- Using Presentation Software
- Designing Slide Presentations With Visualizations
- Testing Your Presentation
- Delivering Presentations
- Common Presentation Pitfalls
- After Your Presentation
- Presentation Checklist
- Exercise
9
The Cases
- Can Twitter predict the outcome of the U.S. presidential election?-Andrew Hamlet
- Can you predict the success of a startup?-Prasant Sudhakaran
- Reporting on project status-Adam Gonthier
- Identifying gaming behavior through analytics-Harry Chernoff
- Exploring the openings and closings of NYC schools-Reshama Shaikh and Riyaz Shaikh
- Wrap Up
10
The End
- Your Visual Habits
- Archetypes
- Keep Visualizing, Keep Learning, and Keep in Touch