Data Visualisation Principle and Best Practices

In this practical interactive workshop, participants will learn how to create data visualisations they can use to explore data to find valuable insights, and accurately and clearly communicate those insights to decision makers.

Participants will learn and apply data visualisation principles and best practices based academic research and industry experience using the data visualisation design process. Participants can also bring existing data visualisations on which they can receive feedback from the experienced facilitator.

Suitability

This workshop is intended for people who want to better understand data visualisaiton concepts and principles so they can perform better data analysis and more clearly communicate the insights.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

Apply the data visualisation design process to create appealing and effective data visualisations
Select and create the correct data visualisations to explore and identify insights in a data set
Select and create the correct data visualisation to communicate insights found in data to their readers
Apply best practice data visualisation design principles to ensure the insights are clear and unambiguous

Course Agenda

Module 1 – Data Visualisation Concepts and Principles

Data Visualisation and Analytics
What is analytics?
What is data visualisation and why use it?
The role of data visualisations in analytics?
Representation and presentation
Tables or Graphs: When should each be used?
Breakout Activity – Matching data visualisation activities and types to decision tasks
Data Visualisation Principles
Data visualisation is communication
Key perception patterns in data visualisation
Designing for clarity, attention and focus
The vocabulary and grammar of visualisation
Using colour correctly
Breakout activity – Improving data visualisations for clarity, attention and focus
Data Visualisation Best Practices
The 8 key data relationships
Table and graphs design principles
Breakout activity – Critique table and graph designs against best practices guidelines

Module 2 – Data Visualisation Design Process

Adding Narrative to Graphs and Tables
Annotations to explain
Calls to action
Adding icons and images
Exploratory and Explanatory Visualisation
Exploratory visualisation process
Interpreting exploratory visualisations
Explanatory visualisation process
Data Visualisation Mini-Project

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