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By the end of this course, participants should be able to: • Critique good and not-so-good examples of visualisations • Identify the best chart primate to use to communicate a given data insight • Implement good practices using pre-attentive processing techniques • Enhance or diminish information quantity for maximum impact • Structure information flow in a dashboard to reveal detail incrementally
• Principles of Organization & the Use of Color and Space o Gestalt organisation principles o Pre-attentive processing o Creating impact by adding and taking away. • Worked Exercises: Organization & the Use of Color and Space o Dashboard challenge: take a raw Excel data sheet and foreground the key insights managers need to see at a glance • Techniques for improving Excel default templates o Additional labelling o Avoiding the default Excel palette o Special characters and explanatory text inserts • Case Study: Foreign aid donations by country [Excel exercise] o Small groups (>=5) work together to create an impactful visualization and story based on data sets from a different donor country
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