8 Research, design, and development

This chapter covers

  • A case study about building a dashboard from beginning to end
  • Researching and planning what should go into a dashboard
  • Designing how the dashboard should look and work and how the data should be modeled
  • Iterating to build the final product

Up until this point, you’ve gotten little snapshots and vignettes of things you can do to up-level visualizations you’re already making. I’ve tried to give you insider information, things I had to figure out on my own because no one ever told me, such as how to pronounce WCAG and how to use different color spaces to tweak a color so it looks just how you’d like it to look. Now, it’s time to take a viz from start to finish, from a blank page and clueless ...

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