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Copyright © 2017 DataSelf Corporation. All rights reserved. DataSelf is a trademark of DataSelf Corp. All other marks and images belong to their respective owners and the descriptive use of such marks and images does not indicate that
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Presenter: Joni Girardi, DataSelf Founder & CEO
Data Visualization 101:Grids, Charts and Dashboards
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Agenda
Design principles
Easily understood viz types
Colors
Number and date formatting
Layout
Chart types: bars, lines, colors, grids
Role-focused dashboards
Color blindness
Rendering dashboards
Visualizations to avoid
Q&A
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Visual perception
Attentive processing
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Brain speed:
Pre-attentive processing
(vs attentive processing)
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The Big Book of Dashboards. https://www.tableau.com/learn/webinars/big-book-of-dashboards1
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The Big Book of Dashboards. https://www.tableau.com/learn/webinars/big-book-of-dashboards1
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Goals of visualization
Who’s your audience
Exposure frequency
Exposure length
Screen real estate
Experiment, get feedback, refine
Design Principles / Guidelines
https://public.tableau.com/profile/jonni.walker#!/vizhome/Ruby-ThroatedHummingbird-FirstSightingsoftheirSpringMigration-USA/Dashboard1
http://localhost/#/views/CFODashboard/CFODashboard1
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Will you have time to teach users how to read a scattered plot?
Easily Understood Visualization Types
Bars Lines Areas Labels State indicators
Tables Maps Bullet charts
Radio gauges take a lot of
space
Pie charts
Up to a few different data points
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Color: Data-Ink Ratio
Edward Tufte: “Data-ink ratio" argues against using excessive decoration in visual displays of quantitative information3
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Color: Distractions
Top market share?
Color distraction
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Color: Legend and Consistency
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Color: Legend and Consistency
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Color: Bands and Lines
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Color: Actionable
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Types: Currency, Number, Percentage
Number Formatting
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Date Formatting
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Trend over time?
YoY growth?
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Date and Color Choices
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Trend over time?
YoY growth?
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Talk Data to Me: Data Visualization Best Practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnMSjSWDQNk&index=15&list=PL_qx68DwhYA_WUaY7kDq_UJmirJBxrJtL
Layout: Location, Location, Location
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The Big Book of Dashboards. https://www.tableau.com/learn/webinars/big-book-of-dashboards
Layout: Big Numbers, Eye-tracking
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10s eye-
tracking
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Layout: Tips
• Avoid scrollbars
• Date/time stamp
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Chart Types: Bars and Lines
Talk Data to Me: Data Visualization Best Practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnMSjSWDQNk&index=15&list=PL_qx68DwhYA_WUaY7kDq_UJmirJBxrJtL
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Chart Types: Colors and Dual Axis
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Charts and Grids
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Role Focused Dashboards: In the work flow
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Role Focused Dashboards
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Color Blindness10% of males, 1% of females
Source: http://schoolworkhelper.net/color-blindness-causes-types/
Colors as seen
with normal vision
Same colors as seen with red-
green color deficiency
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Color Blindness
https://streets.mn/2015/07/24/traffic-signals-abroad/8
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• Method: Desktop, web, mobile, emailPush, self-service, alerts, in the work flow
Rendering Dashboards
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• Security - with sensitive data, test it really well!
• Screen sizes
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• Use it wisely:Valuable for analysis and actionable dashboardsPotentially confusing for others
• Pop up windows - short-term memory, important data should be always visible
• Only set filters that are really required
Interactivity
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Visualizations to avoid:
Visual Distortions
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Visualizations to avoid:
Visual Distortions
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Visualizations to avoid:
Visual math
Market share change over time?
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Visualizations to avoid:
Pie Charts for comparing similar data points
Source: Business Insider10
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Visualizations to avoid:
3D Charts, especially Pie Charts
Source: Business Insider
Deceiving
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Video: https://www.tableau.com/learn/webinars/big-book-of-dashboards
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnMSjSWDQNk
Beautiful Evidence (Edward Tufte)
Information Visualization (Colin Ware)
Information Dashboard Design (Stephen Few)
Storytelling with Data (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (McChesney, Covey, Huling)
Suggested References
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Q&A
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Thank you!Joni Girardi, DataSelf Corp. CEO & Founder
(408) 674.8003 [email protected] @jonigirardi
www.dataself.com
Copyright © 2017 DataSelf Corporation. All rights reserved. DataSelf is a trademark of DataSelf Corp. All other marks and images belong to their respective owners and the descriptive use of such marks and images does not indicate that
such respective owners are in any way connected to or endorsing DataSelf Corp or its initiatives. Comparisons mentioned here are purely metaphorical.