Data visualization uses effective design principles to make information more powerful. By creating a visual story, you will help your audience understand the data more easily and remember it better. These resources guide you through the process of deciding what story you want to tell with your data, and how best to present it to different audiences.

For examples of completed data visualizations, check out our photo gallery! 

Introduction

• Turning Results into Data Visualizations (1:04:51)
• Turning Statewide Data Collection into a Media Frenzy: the Role of Data Visualization

Design Principles

• Data Viz Basics (04:00)
• The Rules of Graphs  (02:10)

Data Viz How-To

• Data Visualization in Microsoft Excel (45:40)
  • Data Viz in Excel Handout with resources
• Table of Key Evaluation Activities Template
• Timeline of Key Activities Template
• Bar Graph without Chart Junk:   Instructions  |  Worksheet   
• Overlapping Bar Chart:   Instructions  |  Worksheet  
• Slopegraph:    Instructions  |  Worksheet  | Demo (19:23)
• Table of Key Informant Interview Results Template 
• Tableau Public: Editing Charts & Graphs (7:15)
• Tableau Public: Advanced Techniques (07:14)
• ArcGIS (40:24)

External Resources

• Stephanie Evergreen's Qualitative Chart Chooser 1 — ways to display qualitative data
• Stephanie Evergreen's Quantitative Chart Chooser — ways to display quantitative data

• 1This is an example of an external link