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.
We invite you to visit the TCEC Data Viz Idea Lab, which contains over 50 templates and samples for you to download and customize for your local use!
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 How-To
- Data Visualization in Microsoft Excel (45:40)
- 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