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Data Visualization
Turning data into charts that make the important comparison easy and accurate.
What is Data Visualization?
Turning data into charts that make the important comparison easy and accurate.
What you learn
Choose the chart that makes your comparison easy and accurate.
When it helps
a chart hides the answer, or people misread a trend or comparison.
Use it at work
- Write the one comparison the chart must show.
- Pick the simplest chart for it: bars, lines or dots.
- Start bars at zero, and label things directly.
- Ask someone what the chart says, and check they’re right.
Your output
For each chart you make, write the one comparison it should show. Pick the simplest chart that makes that comparison accurate.
Watch for
Picking a chart for looks.
Related practices
Sources
- Simple charts
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods
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