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Start Your Free Trial Today >>Unlock the secrets to creating compelling and effective visualizations with our "Visualization Best Practices" course. This comprehensive course, derived from the renowned Tableau Certified Professional curriculum, is designed to enhance your data storytelling skills by focusing on essential visualization principles and techniques.
What You'll Learn:
Sensory Memory:
Explore the Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model.
Learn about pre-attentive attributes.
Master techniques for directing attention using color, size, and position.
Cognitive Load (Short-Term Memory):
Grasp the concept of cognitive load and how it impacts data visualization.
Discover practical tips to manage cognitive load, such as chunking information, giving control, breaking into a story, using color sparingly, avoiding redundant encoding, integrating legends, maximizing the data-ink ratio, and mastering tooltips and annotations.
The Truthful Charts:
Dive into Gestalt principles to understand how visual elements are perceived as a whole.
Learn the laws of similarity, pragnanz, proximity, continuity, closure, and common region, and apply them to create truthful and compelling charts.
Understand chart expectations related to axis, size, and color to ensure your visualizations meet viewer expectations.
Storytelling:
Learn the narrative arc and its application in data storytelling.
Analyze real-world examples such as the Cinderella story, sea turtles in Curacao, tennis hero Boris Becker, saving the big cats, and US car accidents.
Master storytelling with data to create engaging and impactful visual narratives.
Why Choose This Course?
Expert Knowledge: Learn from seasoned professionals with extensive experience in data visualization and storytelling.
Hands-On Learning: Engage with practical exercises and real-world case studies to apply your knowledge and hone your skills.
Flexibility: Whether youāre a beginner or looking to refine your existing skills, this course is structured to cater to your learning pace and style.
Community and Support: Join a community of like-minded learners and professionals, with access to expert support throughout your learning journey.
By the end of this course, you will have a deep understanding of the best practices in data visualization, enabling you to create clear, accurate, and engaging visual stories. Enhance your data presentation skills and make a greater impact with your insights.
Enrol now and start your journey to becoming a visualization expert!
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$157
/ MonthAccelerate your Career and boost your Earning Potential with our Expert Instructors & Community! What Youāll Unlock: - š 40+ Courses (over 200 hours!) - š 17 Specialized Career Paths - š Quizzes and Practice Activities - š Certificates for Courses & Career Paths - š Prizes for Learning - š§Ŗ Weekly Live Labs (plus recordings!) - šÆ Monthly Missions to practice even more - š¼ Monthly Career Booster Events - š¬ Full access to the SDS Community - ā” Monthly Speed Networking - š„ Monthly Resume Clinics - š„ Group Mentorship Program Plus, Pro Plan perks just for you: - š A Personalized Career Path built around your goals - š§āš« 1-on-1 Mentoring Sessions every month - āļø Personalized Resume Reviews "In just a few months of learning at SDS, I landed a Data Analyst job!" ā Sanaz Afshar, California
Course content
Cognitive Load
11:17
Too Much Cognitive Load Examples
11:04
Tip 1: Use Chunking
10:00
Tip 2: Give Control
08:40
Tip 3: Break Into A Story
06:14
Tip 4: Use Colour Sparingly
10:00
Tip 5: Avoid Redundant Encoding
10:32
Tip 6: Integrate the Legends
03:29
Tip 7: Maximise the Data-Ink Ratio
08:53
Tip 8: Master Tooltips & Annotations
08:25
Cleveland and McGill's Ranking of Elementary Perceptual Tasks (Part 1)
09:23
Cleveland and McGill's Ranking of Elementary Perceptual Tasks (Part 2)
06:20
Tip 9: Simpler Charts Are (Often) Better
12:55
Tip 10: Use Titles To Ask Questions
11:42
Intro to The Truthful Charts
03:27
Part 1 - Gestalt Principles
01:22
Law of Similarity (Part 1)
09:11
Law of Similarity (Part 2)
10:12
Law of Similarity (Part 3)
10:07
Law of Pragnanz (Part 1)
07:17
Law of Pragnanz (Part 2)
07:28
Law of Proximity (Part 1)
07:50
Law of Proximity (Part 2)
06:36
Law of Continuity (Part 1)
06:47
Law of Continuity (Part 2)
06:02
Law of Continuity (Part 3)
06:42
Law of Closure
11:45
Law of Common Region (Part 1)
07:10
Law of Common Region (Part 2)
12:24
Part 2 - Chart Expectations
01:03
Axis Expectations
08:59
Size Expectations
08:41
Color Expectations
04:16