November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
5h 43m
English
book
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
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Index
A
- Accessibility
- overcomplicating
- poor design,
- text, thoughtful use of
- action titles on slides
- Action words
- Adobe Illustrator
- Aesthetics
- Affordances
- creating a clear visual hierarchy of information
- eliminating distractions
- highlighting effects
- Alignment
- diagonal components
- presentation software tips for
- Animation, leveraging in visuals
- Annotated line graph with forecast
- Area graphs
- Atkinson, Cliff
- Audience attention, focusing
- color
- brand colors
- considering tone conveyed
- designing with colorblind in mind
- position on page
- using consistently
- using sparingly
- memory
- iconic
- long-term
- short-term
- preattentive attributes
- in graphs
- in text
- sight
- size
- color
B
- Bar charts
- axis vs. data labels
- bar width
- categories, logical ordering of
- ethical concerns
- horizontal
- simple
- stacked
- horizontal
- leveraging positive and negative
- 100%
- vertical
- vertical
- waterfall chart
- Beck, Harry
- Beyond Bullet Points (Atkinson)
- Big Idea
- Bing, Bang, Bongo
C
- Cairo, Alberto
- Case studies
- alternatives to pie charts
- 100% stacked horizontal bar graph
- showing numbers directly
- simple bar graph
- slopegraph
- color considerations with a dark background
- animation, leveraging in visuals
- logic in order
- spaghetti graphs, avoiding
- combined approach
- emphasizing one line at a time
- separating spatially
- alternatives to pie charts
- Closure principle
- Clutter, avoiding
- cognitive load
- data-ink/signal-to-noise ratio
- contrast, nonstrategic use of
- redundant details, use of
- decluttering
- cleaning up axis labels
- labeling ...
- cognitive load
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