Storytelling with Data

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• Acceptance by audience of designs
  • garnering acceptance exercise for, 231–232
  • thinking like a designer and, 191, 193, 220, 231–232
• Accessibility
  • alt text for, 229–230
  • colorblindness and, 136, 154, 160, 191, 218, 230, 291, 388
  • data accessibility with words exercise and, 225–226
  • guidelines for, 230
  • practice at work exercise for, 229–230
  • thinking like a designer and, 191, 193, 220, 229–230
• “accessible data viz is better data viz” (Cesal), 229
• Accounts over time exercise, 365
• Action for audience to take
  • ending in narrative arc and, 253, 255
  • identifying, 43
  • storytelling and, 237
  • tension in story and, 249, 251, 272
• Adverse effects exercise, 362
• Aesthetics, and design, 191, 193, 220
• Affordances, and design, 191, 192, 220
• Alignment of elements. See also Centering; Justification
  • axis titles and, 121, 131, 198, 199, 202
  • detail in graphs and, 208, 228
  • effectiveness of graphs using, 112
  • eliminating clutter and, 120–122, 140, 286
  • horizontal elements and, 108
  • justification of text and, 121, 131
  • logos and, 216
  • market size over time graph and, 112
  • physician prescription patterns graph for, 120–122
  • practice on your own and, 140
  • practice with Cole and, 120–122
  • text boxes and, 121, 216
  • text in titles and, 198
  • visual order and, 108
• All caps
  • axis labels with, 198, 202, 214, 228
  • branding text with, 217
  • making things stand out using, 154
  • rectangular shape using, 133, 198, 202
  • short phrases using, 133
• Alt text, 229–230
• Analysis
  • explanatory vs. exploratory, 2, 188, 268
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