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Please note that most of these tools are not Free or fully GDPR compliant. use with caution.

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Please note that most of these tools are not Free or fully GDPR compliant. use with caution.

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ChatCSV allows you to ask your CSV document anything. It's an Ask Me Anything for your spreadsheets.

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Graphy - Make Beautiful Graphs Online For Free with AI

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Graphy enables anyone to become a skilled data storyteller, by radically simplifying the way data is presented and communicated.

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Findly - ChatGPT for your internal business metrics

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Findly is an AI-powered NLG tool that integrates with Slack, enabling seamless database queries, data visualization, and report generation. Join the waitlist to transform the way your team works with data.

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Chartify - AI Generated Charts for Your Data

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Turn CSVs and database tables into rich, interactive charts and graphs. Let our AI suggest new ways to visualize data, or ask for your own, from pie charts to line graphs and bar charts.

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A data base of top AI DataVis Tool if you did not find what you were looking for

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A data base of top AI DataVis Tool if you did not find what you were looking for

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Cognitive & Psychological Science insights to improve climate change data visualisation

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Cognitive & Psychological Science insights to improve climate change data visualisation

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Declutter and Focus: Empirically Evaluating Design Guidelines forEffective Data Communication (Ajani et al. 2021)

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Declutter and Focus: Empirically Evaluating Design Guidelines forEffective Data Communication (Ajani et al. 2021)

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17744.The_Visual_Display_of_Quantitative_Information

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Want to readBuy on AmazonRate this bookEffective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data by Stephanie Evergreen

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Want to readBuy on AmazonRate this bookEffective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data by Stephanie Evergreen

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58707073-effective-data-visualization?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_20

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Data Visualisation Resources - Visualising Data

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DATA VISUALISATION RESOURCES This is a collection of some of the many data visualisation (and related) tools, applications, toolkits, libraries, platforms, and packages. Organised loosely around several categories, based on the best-fit descriptive characteristic or primary purpose, this collection has been curated since around 2010 to provide readers with as current and as comprehensive a ...

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Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45004977-storytelling-with-data?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_22

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(1) The Data Visualization Catalogue by Severino Riecca

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(1) The Data Visualization Catalogue by Severino Riecca

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https://datavizcatalogue.com/

The Data Visualisation Catalogue is a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a (non-code-based) library of different information visualisation types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualisation.

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Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling by Jason Lankow

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Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling by Jason Lankow

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18929928-infographics?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_25

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Read 25 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Transform your marketing efforts through the power of visual content In today's fast-paced...

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(2) The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods by Visual Literacy

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(2) The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods by Visual Literacy

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https://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#

A dynamic periodic table of visualisation method

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DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story by Nancy Duarte

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DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story by Nancy Duarte

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50016865-datastory?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=2u71BSCCsN&rank=7

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DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Stor...

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Read 41 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Scientists have proven that stories make the brain light up in ways no other form of commun...

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(3) "The Data Visualization Checklist" by Stephanie Evergreen

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(3) "The Data Visualization Checklist" by Stephanie Evergreen

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https://stephanieevergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EvergreenDataVizChecklist.pdf

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https://ec-europa-eu.libguides.com/data_visualisation/home

Reading list with references to recent books and articles on Data visualisation in practice, Types of data visualisation and tools, Examples of data visualisation, and Storytelling with data

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Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic 

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Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic 

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26535513-storytelling-with-data?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=2u71BSCCsN&rank=4

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Charts that work: FT visual vocabulary guide

The FT Schools guide to portraying data
(Original Link to PDF: https://www.ft.com/content/c7bb24c9-964d-479f-ba24-03a2b2df6e85 )

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https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/EUODDVC/Training+material+-+Data+visualisation+tutorial

EU Open Data Portal. Publications Office of the European Union, 2020. This data visualisation tutorial allows finding information and resources and helping in the creation of data visualisations. (EU Portal)

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Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations by Scott Berinato 

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Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations by Scott Berinato 

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At storytelling with data, we encounter a ton of different graphs. Through our work, we've both learned strategies for effective application and identified common pitfalls (including some things to avoid!). In this guide, we share the good and the bad of commonly used charts and graphs for data communications.

Simply click on a graph below to learn more.

If you're looking for additional graphs, and want us to expand our what is...? series, let us know in this conversation. In the meantime, use the search and filter functionality in the SWD community to discover more data storytelling examples and articles related to a specific visual (read this short post for specifics about how to use this feature). Additionally, here are the search results for some common chart queries: maps and small multiples.

To explore some of the visuals we use most at SWD, check out this post -an oldie-but-goodie!

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charts and graphs - a complete guide - storytelling with data

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This guide gives you the good, the bad, and the in-between of commonly used charts and graphs for data communications.

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3 Ways to Inspire Others with Data Stories

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Duarte creates presentations and offers training based on our unique VisualStory methodology, which applies storytelling and visual thinking to craft persuasive communications designed to shift audience beliefs and behaviors

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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo

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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43726576-how-charts-lie

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Collection of data visualizations to get inspired and find the right type

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Applying diverse, equitable & inclusive awareness in data visualisation (J. Schwabish)

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Applying diverse, equitable & inclusive awareness in data visualisation (J. Schwabish)

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(From : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn6EIfiQQug ) 10:03 minute

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The sevens sins of Data Visualization by Slava Shestopalov

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The sevens sins of Data Visualization by Slava Shestopalov

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https://medium.com/design-bridges/dataviz-sins-976f3a08948c

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USER INTERFACES

Snakes, seashells, mountains - this is something we, designers, might draw instead of showing data. Just get me right: creative charts are a fair choice when the goal is to entertain, for example, in a fitness app or video game. But if you aim to inform decisions, fanciness is not going to work. We'll explore seven visual approaches incompatible with business needs and will find robust alternatives.

Have you ever seen a CRM or ERP dashboard design that features juicy 3D tubes as graphs? I call this approach "snakes."

Although such visualizations might seem visually appealing, they are helpless against actual data and - importantly - are challenging to use. Almost everything is the decoration on the chart above, whereas the real data consists of only 10 data points. On such a large widget, you can show all the numbers without tooltips at all!

"Zebra" grid, thickness, volume, shadows, and gradients provide no practical benefit but occupy space and draw attention in vain.

Besides that, there is enough space for displaying 20, 30, and even more data points instead of just 10. "Snakes" might indicate that there is, in fact, little data to show, and a designer attempts to fill in this blank area with something pleasant to the eyes.

And now, imagine there is a need to show multiple trends simultaneously. "Snakes" won't allow you to do that. In the picture below, the glowing tubes create a complete mess.

Risks in a nutshell

It's difficult to show more than one graph and maintain readability.

The line thickness obscures the actual numbers, so there is a need for dumb workarounds like "zebra" coloring or grids.

The graph's smooth curves are possible only with "perfect" mock data and will be crushed by the real data.

Curves connecting data points imply some intermediate points, but that's just an illusion.

How to avoid

If there are few data points, use a bar chart.

If there are many data points, meaning the data is continuous, think of a simple thin graph.

Like the "snakes," beloved designers' "donuts," especially the nested ones, also impact accuracy and turn data comparison into hurdling. Plus, both methods have trouble with using space effectively.

People can more or less handle even percentages: full circle = 100%, half a circle = 50%, a quarter = 25%, and three-thirds = 75%. But what if a circle ends somewhere between the "half" and "three-thirds" - like the green one in the picture? How quickly can you calculate 50 + 25 ÷ 2 and assume it should be around 62.5%?

If you have only one circle, you can put a percentage number in the middle, but what if the widget contains three circles?

What you can also notice in the picture above is that the percentage doesn't correspond to the visual weight. The blue ring shows a higher percentage but doesn't look much larger than the green one.

Now, rounding. It might make the chart look cute but, eventually, distorts the data. Such rounding visually adds two-three "ghost" percent on top of the real values. Let's see. These are non-rounded edges:

Look how much decoration, including rounding, was used to convey just three simple data points:

The good news is the chart can be much simpler. Three bars communicate the same information, require less space, and expose numbers without tooltips, which is vital for data-driven interfaces.

With simple bars, one can also get rid of a legend and keep the widget even more compact. And you don't need colors anymore because the labels now accompany the bars.

Risks in a nutshell

Circular shapes are harder to interpret. People recognize even percentages like 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% pretty well, but normally struggle with intermediate values.

Nested circles require a legend or tooltips because labels usually cannot be gracefully attached to the corresponding rings.

Rounded arch ends in nested charts make comparisons challenging.

How to avoid

Consider using bar charts for accurate percentage indication.

Yet choosing a circular chart, avoid nested circles and roundings.

Edward Tufte, a famous statistician and the author of fundamental books on data visualization, warned many times that visually appealing charts could lie. "Seashells" are a trendy variation of donut charts, where colored segments have varying widths and overlap with each other.

Simply saying, the essence of data visualization is representing numbers visually - through color, area, length, and other means. For example, the greater the number, the longer the bar; the lower the percentage, the smaller the area. But when we analyze "seashell" charts, how are they supposed to work? Not only does the higher percentage gain a wider circle section, but also, the segment is thicker!

And what is the logic behind the overlaps and overshoots? How does one interpret this "data"? Does it mean that the chart shows more than 100% and more than 360 degrees?

This information can be visualized on a chart of the same shape, a pie chart. Of course, the number of data points should remain limited; otherwise, the chart will become messy.

Besides, you can use such a chart type as a treemap, where rectangles of corresponding areas represent the percentage. Although people are usually the best at comparing lengths - ave bar charts! - areas are well-comparable by the eye, too.

Risks in a nutshell

Unlike classical pie charts, the logic behind "seashells" is unclear: is data represented by area, curve thickness, or sector angle?

Overlapping sectors distort the data and don't convey meaning.

The sleek 3D style of these charts is possible only with mock data and will be smashed by the "imperfect" real data.

How to avoid

If there is not much data and an accurate comparison is insignificant, feel free to use a classical pie chart.

A treemap is also a handy technique to show percentages through the area.

Have you ever seen "mountains" in business dashboards? I use this term for colored overlapping graphs, yet another popular technique.

I've already introduced this flaw - made-up data - in the "Snakes" chapter, but let's discuss it in detail. The elaborate visualization above boils down to 20 turquoise and orange points.

All the connecting curves have nothing to do with data; they are added artificially. Maybe for good sake - to unite separate points into a clear trend, or perhaps to fill in the "gaps" and make it look "nicer."

But why is it dangerous for business interfaces? Here is an example. We have two neighboring points on an engineering chart - 50 kg/m² at 12:00 and 60 kg/m² at 13:00. These points are connected with an elegant smooth curve. As a result, a user sees that at 12:30, the pressure was around 55 kg/m², but it's a lie since no one measured it.

The value could have risen abruptly from 50 - whoosh! - to 59, and at 13:00, it reached 60. Or it might have been growing gradually. Or it may have even dropped to 30 before reaching 60 by 13:00. And the fewer points a chart has, the wider space is left for speculations.

A two-color bar chart is one of many options, though. You can choose a graph and even connect the points with lines on the condition of sufficient contrast between actual data and helpful visual effects.

Risks in a nutshell

"Mountains" create an impression of continuous data but are based on a limited set of points.

The curves always show smooth data dynamics, although what happened between the actual points is unknown. The transition could have been rapid, gradual, or fluctuating.

A chart has to be loosened to sustain the smoothness of curves. As a result, it occupies space and shows little data.

How to avoid

Ensure the data points are well-distinguishable from visual effects that help to recognize trends (like connecting lines).

Try not to use color fill to maintain good contrast if you have several overlapping graphs on the widget.

Well, what's wrong with this chart? Why can't we have something more attractive and original than dull rectangles? I should admit that those 3D "sausages" aren't a good option, and here is why.

Such visualizations have quite a few issues, but the key concern is stolen data. "Sausages" are the real thieves of the interface world since they show empty spaces where there is real data. To be fair, "sausages" cope with maintaining high contrast so that you can see the edge between green and orange, but the price of this contrast is too high.

I calculated that each tiny gap between the colored bars equals approximately 3% if the entire column is 100% on the chart above. At first glance, not much, right? But we've got three sections of different colors and need two gaps, so the total visual "theft" is more significant - 6% per column! And if you calculate a stolen percentage from the circular chart, it'll reach around 7%, approximately 3.5% per gap.

I put the missing bar parts back on the suggested variant below and got rid of the legend as a separate item. Besides, the former untitled donut part received a new format and a name (average for the fourth quarter).

Risks in a nutshell

"Sausages" conceal a substantial part of the real data, and thus aren't accurate enough for analysis and serious decision-making.

Also, such charts have classical trouble with compactness; they require extra space not to look messy.

How to avoid

Don't break monolith data by spacing. Typically, don't add gaps between portions, the sum of which should equal 100%.

Check if the chart edges are reasonably rounded - too much roundness disguises valuable bits of data.

Unlike gorgeous Fernando Baptista's infographics for National Geographic, business dashboards aren't a suitable place for isometric "skyscrapers" instead of accurate plain bars.

3D charts lack accuracy and are a severe obstacle when users quickly scan through the interface to spot anomalies and tendencies. In the picture below, I tried to simulate what draws attention at first glance. Can you tell if the bars marked by colored dots are of the same height?

The ones marked by acid-green squares are equal; as for the blocks marked by rosy circles, the first one is 3% higher. Alright, if the problem is insufficient data accuracy, then why don't designers dim the rest of the parallelepipeds and leave only the front highlighted? Here you go:

However, accuracy is not the only issue. As Master Yoda says in memes, "There is another." Already guessed? I mean compactness and an ability to reflect natural, subtle fluctuations of data - not this exaggerated rollercoaster with constantly alternating ups and downs.

If you keep it simple, subtle shifts of the measured parameter will be better distinguishable. And it can stay dark-themed if the proper accuracy and highlights are there, for example, the top- and bottom-most values within a selected time range. By the way, I haven't squeezed the bar width, but the chart now is twice narrower!

Risks in a nutshell

"Skyscrapers" and other isometric visualizations occupy enormous space compared to the data amount.

Such charts aren't capable of revealing subtle data fluctuations either.

When "skyscrapers" have highlighted "roofs," they are even harder to read since the top makes the bars look higher.

How to avoid

Don't use 3D effects on business charts.

Ensure the chart design will support realistic data, which usually isn't as perfectly wavy as on mockups.

If you have kids, you might know about a toy called a baby cube or activity cube. It's a box with various handles, latches, sockets, switches, abacuses, buttons, and figures attached to its sides. Of course, all the components of such a "baby dashboard" aren't functioning, but children train their hand motor skills while playing with the cube.

And how does that relate to data visualization? Nowadays, I see a harmful design practice of drawing visually appealing dashboards that, upon closer examination, can bring little value in reality.

"Baby cubes" are a junction of all dangerous styles from the previous chapters - a misleading illustration rather than a useful tool. As you can notice in the example, it's full of trendy details: shadows, transparency, volume, glow, rounding, isometric shapes, etc. However, all the widgets are dumb: they fill in the screen space but provide zero insight.

There won't be a "correct" example here because we've already dwelled on how to fix data visualizations piece by piece.

Risks in a nutshell

"Baby cubes" might aim at making the data more friendly to the eyes, but, unfortunately, they also lose precision and practicality.

Rounded shapes, shadows, gradient fills, and 3D effects are less capable of enduring "imperfect" real data than plain forms.

How to avoid

Conduct user and business research beforehand and base a dashboard design on the research findings.

Avoid oversimplified dashboard designs for business needs.

Test with users by means of realistic tasks without prompts. For example, "What was the revenue in Q2?" versus "Can you see the large widget showing revenue in the middle of the screen?"

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Snakes, seashells, mountains - this is something we, designers, might draw instead of showing data. Just get me right: creative charts are a fair choice when the goal is to entertain, for example, in a fitness app or video game. But if you aim to inform decisions, fanciness is not going to work.

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Fundamentals of data visualizationBy Claus O Wilke (University of Texas, US). O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2019. 

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Fundamentals of data visualizationBy Claus O Wilke (University of Texas, US). O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2019. 

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This is the website for the book "Fundamentals of Data Visualization," published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. The website contains the complete author manuscript before final copy-editing and other quality control. If you would like to order an official hardcopy or ebook, you can do so at various resellers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, or Powells.

The book is meant as a guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional. It has grown out of my experience of working with students and postdocs in my laboratory on thousands of data visualizations. Over the years, I have noticed that the same issues arise over and over. I have attempted to collect my accumulated knowledge from these interactions in the form of this book.

The entire book is written in R Markdown, using RStudio as my text editor and the bookdown package to turn a collection of markdown documents into a coherent whole. The book's source code is hosted on GitHub, at https://github.com/clauswilke/dataviz. If you notice typos or other issues, feel free to open an issue on GitHub or submit a pull request. If you do the latter, in your commit message, please add the sentence "I assign the copyright of this contribution to Claus O. Wilke," so that I can maintain the option of publishing this book in other forms.

This work is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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This is the website for the book "Fundamentals of Data Visualization," published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. The website contains the complete author manuscript before final copy-editing and other quality control. If you would like to order an official hardcopy or ebook, you can do so at various resellers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, or Powells.

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https://r-graph-gallery.com/

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- Solid Symbols (paper OK)
- White Space
- Axis Label with Sans Font
- Font Size Difference
- Legend Plot & Cognitive Load
- Symmetry
- Ratio and axis (above and below ratio)
(From 11 min : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn6EIfiQQug )

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Data visualizations will permit firms to communicate insights, trends, and performance metrics to diverse audiences through intuitive graphical representations. Tableau's interactive dashboards make presenting data impactful, but effective design is critical. Follow these best practices for creating immersive, effective data visualizations with Tableau.

Overview Of Data Visualization With Tableau:

Tableau's drag-and-drop interface will effortlessly permit building dashboards with diverse chart and graph options that automatically update with live data. Robust functionality for formatting, drilling down, storytelling, and sharing will amplify user engagement.

But functional visuals alone will not maximize communication potential. Strategic design tailored to the audience, data stories, and analytics goals enhance viewer comprehension and retention of insights.

Data visualization design involves balancing:

Artistry: visual appeal, layout, colors

Cognition: clarity, comprehension, and focus points

Storytelling: logical narrative flow and messaging

Analytics: highlighting key data insights and relationships

The expert design will permit data visualizations to transcend static reports into compelling exploratory environments with meaningful impact.

Design Principles for Effective Data Visualizations:

Certain core design principles underpin impactful data visualization, regardless of specific contexts and audience profiles:
Embrace White Space:
Avoid cramming too many visuals onto a single dashboard. Leave plenty of whitespace to direct focus and permit elements room to breathe. Decluttering enhances clarity.
Guide With Layout:
Use deliberate visual grouping and layout techniques to logically guide the viewer through dashboards in an intentional sequence.
Prioritize Key Metrics:
Emphasize the most important KPIs, statistics, or data stories over ancillary visuals. Draw attention to priority elements through design.
Align To Audience:
Tailor designs, text, and interactive components to match viewer perspectives, domain knowledge, analytics culture, and preferred data consumption modes.
Reinforce Messages:
Use complementary visuals to reinforce key takeaways from multiple angles. Overlap insights across chart types and data subsets to aid retention.
Enable Customization:
Allow end users to apply filters, hide visuals, drill down, and toggle between views based on situational needs for deeper exploration.
Simplify Complex Data:
Distill complex datasets into clear and focused views. Guide users through navigating intricacies through thoughtful stepwise designs. Reduce noise.
Test And Iterate:
Continuously gather feedback on existing dashboards and reports to optimize styles, layouts, components, text, and analytics content.

By following a human-centered design methodology with these principles in mind, data visualizations will unlock engagement, comprehension, and actionability.

Design Techniques For Engaging Dashboards:

Certain design techniques help translate the broad principles above into tactical visualization choices and styles:

Thoughtful Palettes: Use subtle yet meaningful color schemes that will align with the brand or topic while also distinguishing data series in clear ways without garish hues.

Text Hierarchy: Establish clear typographic styles and sizes for titles, headings, labels, legends, and details to guide visual flow.

Smart Grids: Leverage grid and container layouts to logically group related charts into focused zones for gradual narrative development.

Preattentive Attributes: Increase the speed of information processing by using innate visual properties like shape, shading, and position to direct attention.

Relationship Links: Illustrate interactions between data variables through graphical elements like lines, overlap, containment, and flow.

Storytelling Flow: Sequence and transition across dashboards to gradually reveal insights in an explanatory narrative journey.

Salient Cues: Subtly highlight important marks, trends, or ratings using cues like color intensity, size, containment, motion, positioning, and annotations.

Reduced Clutter: Eliminate distracting and unnecessary chart elements, labels, grids, legends, etc. to have the attention/focus on the data.

Intuitive Interactions: Allow seamless hovering, filtering, zooming, toggling, and other direct on-chart interactions to enable exploration.

Balanced Density: Carefully balance information density across the dashboard to avoid being underwhelming or overwhelming. Leave space for key elements to be prominent.

Designing for Different Audiences:

Certain design guidelines may benefit specific dashboard audiences:
Executives:
For concise, high-level reporting, use:
Operations Teams:
To optimize for regular monitoring, use:
Data Analysts:
To enable ad hoc analysis, provide:
External Clients:
For stakeholder presentations, focus on:
General Consumers:
For public-facing dashboards, prioritize:

Leveraging Tableau Consulting Services:

While Tableau offers outstanding capabilities for data visualization right out of the box, organizations can amplify success and adoption by engaging Tableau consulting services experts who provide:

Business intelligence assessment

Custom dashboard design aligned to needs

Hands-on training and mentoring

Change management guidance

Technical implementation and maintenance

End-user support services

Strategic solution growth and refinement

The right design partner helps transform raw data into insightful narratives that motivate change. With sound data visualization principles and purposeful style choices, organizations can make data truly engaging across the business.

Key Benefits Of Strategic Data Visualization:

Tableau's interactive dashboards become even more powerful communication mediums with thoughtful design. The perks are:

Faster Insight Absorption: Careful designs will permit faster processing and comprehension of data insights through deliberate visual guidance.

Improved Memorability: Tactical visual cues and reinforced messaging stick better in the viewer's memory for recall and action.

Enhanced Engagement: Immersive designs provide satisfying user experiences that promote interaction and ongoing use.

Tailored Messaging: Designs crafted for specific audiences help resonate with perspectives, terminology, and analytics needs.

Guided Storytelling: Visual narratives sequenced intentionally guide audiences through key insights and findings.

Simplified Complexity: Clean designs help simplify intricate datasets for clarity without sacrificing sophistication.

Intuitive Exploration: Interactivity enables users to slice data on demand to uncover deeper insights through exploration.

Focused Attention: Decluttered layouts eliminate distractions and focus attention on the most important elements.

Emotional Resonance: Thoughtful designs spark emotional responses that drive a greater connection with data.
Wrapping Up:
With strategic design, data visualizations evolve into robust aids for data-driven decision-making. Work with specialized consultants to craft solutions with lasting business impact.

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Enhancing Data Visualization: Effective And Engaging Design Tips With Tableau

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Follow these best practices for creating immersive, effective data visualizations with Tableau.