Data Visualization Fundamentals
What if you’re making the wrong decisions – not because you are missing data – but because the presentation of that data leads you to the wrong conclusions?
More data is now available at our fingertips than at any other time in human history. Yet finding the answers to our most pressing questions – right now – is as difficult as ever.
Better tools and technology do help, but these systems can’t tell us how to interpret the meaning of our data. Drawing insight from bars, lines, and charts is a human activity – and effective presentation of data is greatly influenced by factors such as color, choice of graph, context, and other non-technical aspects that are often an afterthought.
Focused on the human rather than technical aspects of how we turn data into information, our upcoming webinar on Data Visualization Fundamentals will cover:
- Data visualization – a brief overview and history
- Design principles – the impact of color, layout, and other factors that play a role in the usability of data and information
- Optimizing your presentation – Do you need a dashboard with KPIs, an interactive analysis, or printed tabular report? Will the data be viewed on a desktop computer or mobile device? We’ll look at the different modes of presentation and identify best practices for each.
- Helpful hints – top things to help you to start down the right path on your next data visualization effort.
This event was held on August 18, 2010, and the video is now available for viewing.
