Learn how to present data with influence and integrity. Match your type of data to the correct graph, table or map, and design these visuals so that your ‘data story’ has the most effect.
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Course topics
- Defining audience and message – be clear about who you are talking to and what you want to say
- Understanding the data – know your product!
- Choosing the visual – match the visual to the message
- Things to avoid – practical advice
- Designing the visuals, including:
- colour
- accessibility
- font choices
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- create graphs that
- are intuitive and require little reader effort
- are visually appealing
- contain data that best communicates the overall ‘story’
- make the data ‘shine’
- uphold principles of scientific publishing
- know what to look for in a proposal or publication on data
- understand the harm that can come from misrepresenting data.